{"id":685824,"date":"2025-08-19T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/review-dijons-baby-rips-up-pop-and-starts-again\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T22:05:12","slug":"review-dijons-baby-rips-up-pop-and-starts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/review-dijons-baby-rips-up-pop-and-starts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dijon\u2019s Baby rips up pop and starts again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f8f4918573\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/review-dijons-baby-rips-up-pop-and-starts-again\/#Theres_nothing_else_quite_like_the_LA_artists_sophomore_album_an_ecstatic_and_blindingly_brilliant_celebration_of_lifes_joys_and_perils\" >There\u2019s nothing else quite like the L.A. artist\u2019s sophomore album, an ecstatic and blindingly brilliant celebration of life\u2019s joys and perils.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Theres_nothing_else_quite_like_the_LA_artists_sophomore_album_an_ecstatic_and_blindingly_brilliant_celebration_of_lifes_joys_and_perils\"><\/span>There\u2019s nothing else quite like the L.A. artist\u2019s sophomore album, an ecstatic and blindingly brilliant celebration of life\u2019s joys and perils.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273300\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Copy_of_Dijon_-_Baby_Artwork_photo_by_Kristina_Loggia_fffb7c\/review-dijon-baby-album.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Copy_of_Dijon_-_Baby_Artwork_photo_by_Kristina_Loggia_fffb7c\/review-dijon-baby-album.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Review: Dijon\u2019s &lt;i&gt;Baby&lt;\/i&gt; rips up pop and starts again\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273301\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Dijon Duenas <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaches his songs with a chaotic desperation. His debut album <i>Absolutely<\/i> felt raw and messy by design with the Los Angeles based singer, songwriter, and producer pursuing a version of pop music ready to explode at any moment. The music was full of in-the-moment decision-making and off-the-cuff emoting; vocal takes were recorded in the wee hours of the morning, his voice hoarse from long nights of drinking. \u201cI would love to engage in the pop world with some of the more messy, far out sonic choices,\u201d he said in an interview with The FADER.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            On his second album <i>Baby<\/i>, surprise-released last week, Dijon holds to that guiding principle, pressing further into the tangled weirdness and outr\u00e9 experimentation that shaded the corners of <i>Absolutely<\/i>\u2019s tender vulnerability.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273305\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dijon - Yamaha (Official Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJGS18kol_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('273305');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273302\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            From the opening moments of this new record, samples stammer and splutter, abstract electronics wheedle and ooze. While you could occasionally hear this in Dijon\u2019s earliest music, the collagist production is foregrounded on <i>Baby<\/i>. \u201cAnother Baby!\u201d is in some ways the kind of song Dijon has been making his whole career, a song of devotion and a tender come-on, relayed with wide-eyed, ecstatic gasps. But he\u2019s also never made anything quite like it\u2014the backbone of the track is made up of a stuttering vocal sample, from which he hangs blown-out guitars, celestial synths, and all manners of less identifiable electronics. Like much of the record, overstuffed to the point of unease\u2014a kind of kitchen-sink maximalism that only underscores the emotions Dijon likes to work with.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            This approach feels deeply intertwined with the subject matter of <i>Baby<\/i>. Like a lot of his music, the record is full of love songs\u2014 the record is dedicated in part to his wife Joanie\u2014but it also finds him grappling with the intensity of new fatherhood. Love is braided with fear, pain, and doubt that lurk in the shadows of virtually every song on the album, the collages of samples and erratic electronics adding anxiety and an unsettled energy to even the most joyous songs. \n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273306\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p><i>Baby<\/i> is music for when everything feels like a little too much\u2014for when you don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry, so you do both. And you don\u2019t hold back even a bit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273303\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            The record was crafted at home, in \u201cisolation\u201d with his family, and it\u2019s reflective of the single-minded concentration of such an experience\u2014packed full of the thoughts that result when you\u2019ve had time to dwell a little too long, tracing the contours of every feeling, letting yourself get spooked. He writes, as ever, in simple, straightforward terms about matters of the heart, but his frayed delivery complicates these truths. It\u2019s apparent in small moments on the title track, a swooning song addressed to his child that culminates in a whispered vow of protection: \u201cIf I could take your pain, you know I would.\u201d The joy of new life and the darkness of pain and loss must coexist\u2014for every blessing, there\u2019s the threat that it could be taken away from you.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In other places, he offers the true romantic\u2019s response to these moments of disquiet and fear: redoubling his commitment and reaffirming his devotion. \u201cYamaha\u201d and \u201cFIRE!\u201d about love and desire that last, tried and true subject matter for pop music. But they ring even truer thanks to <i>Baby<\/i>\u2019s deliberately unrestrained production \u2013 overseen by Dijon and a cast of collaborators which includes Michael Gordon a.k.a. Mk.gee, Andrew Sarlo, and Henry Kwapis Each strained vocal line is cutting through layers of precariously arranged instrumentation and foggy sampledelia; each lyrical revelation feels hard-won as a result, as if he\u2019s fought his way to the surface of his own music, screaming about the love that he\u2019s wrestled from the wilderness. \n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-273304\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Over the past few years, as he once dreamed, Dijon has had the opportunity to push the pop world closer to his vision of what music should be. He made an appearance on Bon Iver\u2019s 2025 album <i>SABLE, fABLE<\/i>. He garnered credits on Justin Bieber\u2019s <i>SWAG<\/i> while clearly serving as an inspiration even on the songs he didn\u2019t explicitly touch. Those efforts showed that his approach has a place on the charts, but they also demonstrated how little Dijon holds back on his own records. <i>SWAG<\/i> owes a clear debt to Dijon\u2019s freewheeling emoting, but <i>Baby<\/i> goes so much further. He\u2019s willing to embrace a sound that\u2019s as ugly, tumultuous, and unwieldy as it is beautiful. <i>Baby<\/i> is music for when everything feels like a little too much\u2014for when you don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry, so you do both. And you don\u2019t hold back even a bit.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Colin Joyce<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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