Sweet Baboo is Stephen Black, a single-minded, idiosyncratic singer possessing an ear for sparkling melody and a gift for a deft lyrical turn – from darkly funny to piercingly tender, boastful to deliciously self-deprecating.

Black has played at Latitude, Green Man Festival, SXSW and The Camden Crawl, as well as touring Germany with Johnny Flynn and the UK with Islet and Slow Club. Having already been shortlisted for the inaugural Welsh Music Prize in 2011 for his third album I’m A Dancer/Songs About Sleeping, Black’s evolution as a songwriter and musician is still very much in motion; with the new album Ships. Influenced by the likes of The Beach Boys, Daniel Johnston, and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Ships (which indulges Black’s love of brass-heavy pop) will be released in April 2013 on Moshi Moshi Records.

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