We’ve been waiting for these songs to come over the top for a good minute now, ever since we caught a tantalising snapshot of The Babies existence over at Soundbites NYC ‘s always fruitful youtube kingdom following their first ever runout as a live troupe last month. Our patience has been rewarded in great, bountiful spades of precious stuff however as Pitchfork lifted the lid on the pet project of Cassie of Vivian Girls adoration/Ramones referencing moniker and Woods -dwelling Kevin Morby this afternoon. “Meet Me In The City” is the result of just such a happy union – a giddied-up, reigns-throwing feral rodeo-rock runaway. A song that honours that simplest of desires – sweet and simple escape from everything – in a suitably unbridled, unhalting and joyful manner, the first jam from the group to emerge witnesses C+K’s vocals comingle in such a way that sees that wholesome, mother’s kitchen, sunday dinner country-pop duet tradition carjacked by two beautiful, blue-jeaned real-world evacuees burning rubber on the road to nowhere, or heaven, or a nowhere city that the very same heaven sometimes hides in.

The Babies – Meet Me In The City