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Sweet Baboo (Stephen Black) has returned with a new single, ‘Werewolf At Night’, prior to him setting off for an intimate, six-date UK Tour this September. Black says of the song: “’Werewolf at Night’ was called ‘Memories’, but that sounds too much like a West End show. It’s a song about real memories, mis-remembered memories …

With the release of his seventh album titled ‘The Wreckage’, is set for release on the 27th January via his own Amazing Tapes From Canton label. The album ends a five-year hiatus for Stephen Black and his fifteenth year writing, recording and performing songs under the pen name Sweet Baboo. The third single to be taken off the album …

Sweet Baboo (Stephen Black) has shared the third track, Horticulture’ to be taken from his upcoming album titled ‘The Wreckage’, which is due on the 27th of January via Amazing Tapes From Canton. Regarding the track Black comments:  “’Horticulture’ was a song that had been running around my brain for a good few years. I must …

After a five-year absence, Sweet Baboo (Stephen Black) has returned with news of a new album and an extensive UK tour. Black has also shared his new single ‘Good Luck’ which was penned by H Hawkline and will feature on the new album titled ‘The Wreckage’, due 27th of January 2023 via Amazing Tapes From Canton …

Taken from his recent Wild Imagination album that dropped in June via Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo (aka Stephen Black) has released a new video for the track Swallows. As is his want, its a dreamy, synth soaked slice of pop-psych, with a chorus that strokes your ears and laps gently, persuasively, against your conciousness. Featuring …

He’s been busy, that Steven Black, aka Sweet Baboo. The Welsh troubadour has just released his new album, The Boombox Ballads, and recently played no less than five times at Green Man Festival. Clearly not one for resting on his laurels, he has a new single ‘Walking in the Rain’, out on October 23rd and …

Ahead of the release of his fifth album, The Boombox Ballads, out on August 14th through Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo aka Stephen Black has released a video for his latest single, Got to hang on to you, which comes out the same day as his album. Black describes Got to hang on to you as …

I don’t know why, but some of the best and most interesting music to come out over the last few years has been from Wales. Amongst this breed of creative people is Stephen Black a.k.a. Sweet Baboo. Under this moniker he has released some criminally undervalued records that mould indie, psych, country, Motown and plain …