Baba Ali’s second album is out on New Music Friday – check it out right here.
The title of Baba Ali‘s new record was arrived at by chance one night on tour; the phrase borrowed from a passage of the 20th century radical art manifesto BLAST!.
“The moment I saw the phrase ‘Laugh Like A Bomb’, I was immediately struck by how accurate it described what I was feeling at a time when we were touring hard and constantly working to earn just enough to get by,” Baba explained.
Personally I was going through a lot of feelings of uncertainty, and living in a foreign country intensified this sense of vulnerability. Despite this, there always felt a need to keep some sort of appearance of normality. Over time, though, there were moments where eventually the surface would crack and I’d lose control of myself or feel a need to escape by dipping more into a hedonistic existence.
“This record became a way for me to work through and document these emotions and triggering experiences, almost like therapy.”