Steady Holiday - Newfound Oxygen

Steady Holiday - Newfound Oxygen released February 17, 2023 Steady Holiday - Newfound Oxygen (Official Video)

Steady Holiday is the solo vehicle for Los Angeles singer-songwriter Dre Babinski’s deeply personal and cinematic storytelling. Characterized by her featherlight voice and sweeping strings (played by Babinski herself), Steady Holiday elegantly sways between plainspoken and profound. 

Babinski spent over a decade collaborating in bands and performing as a touring multi-instrumentalist before Steady Holiday was born with her 2016 debut, Under The Influence, produced by Gus Seyffert (Roger Waters, Bedouine, Beck). What followed were opportunities supporting artists including Mitski and Dr. Dog, multiple appearances at Coachella, and an endorsement with Yamaha Guitars. Her politically-observant sophomore album, Nobody’s Watching was released in 2018 (Barsuk), followed by 2021’s Take The Corners Gently, a call for compassion and humility framed by the effects of illness in her family.

Babinski is now set to release her 4th album, Newfound Oxygen, a clear-eyed reckoning with the hard lessons of growing up and learning to live sustainably. The directness of both Babinski’s songwriting and production by Ari Balouzian (Gabriels, Midnight Sister) compliment the album’s ethos of taking a breath and staying grounded in reality. 
 Newfound Oxygen releases Feb 17, 2023. It will be Steady Holiday’s second release as an independent artist, following 2021’s Take The Corners Gently that earned her a spot on NPR’s Best Songs Of 2020 and a Tiny Desk.

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Steady Holiday - Take The Corners Gently

Steady Holiday - Take The Corners Gently

releases February 12, 2021
Written by Dre Babinski
Produced by Blake Sennett
Additional Production by Blake Straus
Mixed and Engineered by Albert DiFiore
Additional Engineering by Bill Mims
Recorded at Westwood Studios in Nashville, TN
Mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering
Performed by Dre Babinski, Derek Howa, Russ Pollard, Blake Sennett, Blake Straus
2020 Teethy Dreams (ASCAP)

Steady Holiday is the solo vehicle for Los Angeles singer/songwriter Dre Babinski’s deeply personal and cinematic storytelling. Characterized by a featherlight voice and sweeping strings (played by Babinski herself), Steady Holiday creates music that’s nostalgic for a bygone era.

Babinski spent over a decade collaborating in several bands and performing as a touring multi-instrumentalist. Steady Holiday was born with her 2016 debut, Under The Influence, produced by Gus Seyffert (Roger Waters, Beck, Bedouine). What followed were opportunities supporting artists including Mitski and Khruangbin, multiple appearances at Coachella, and an endorsement with Yamaha Guitars, before going back in the studio with Seyffert for her politically-observant follow up, Nobody’s Watching.

Babinski is now set to release her third album on Feb 5, titled Take The Corners Gently. It’s a call for acceptance, compassion and humility, documenting the lessons learned from Babinski's experiences with illness in her family. “It’s been a period of extreme uncertainty. I wanted to create a time-capsule of this moment, and of the wisdom that I gained from it.”

Enlisting the help of producer Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley), Babinski traveled to Nashville to record with the same ethos that guided her through the tumultuous time in which the songs were written. The result is an album that sounds both intentional and spontaneous. In an increasingly complex world, this is Steady Holiday keeping it simple.

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Steady Holiday - Holiday

Steady Holiday - Holiday

After growing up playing in bands in and around her native Los Angeles, Dre Babinski began writing and recording songs of her own, always in secret, developing a body of work about hidden desire itself that ultimately formed under the name Steady Holiday.

Her debut LP Under the Influence was released in 2016 to immediate praise and shows with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mitski, Islands, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, with LA Weekly naming her the city’s Best Solo Artist. In 2017 she released the follow up EP Terror, written immediately following the 2016 election.

In 2018 Steady Holiday signed to the legendary indie label Barsuk for her sophomore LP 'Nobody's Watching', which explored themes like greed, fear and self-interest. Her first headline tours in North America, Japan, and UK/Europe followed, and in 2019 she plays both SXSW and Coachella.
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Steady Holiday - Nobody's Watching

Steady Holiday - Nobody's Watching

After growing up playing in bands in and around LA, in 2015 Dre Babinski began writing and recording songs of her own, always in secret, developing a body of work about hidden desire itself that ultimately formed under the name Steady Holiday.
Her debut LP Under the Influence was released in 2016 to immediate praise, landing her a Coachella spot and shows with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mitski, Islands, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, with LA Weekly naming her the city’s Best Solo Artist. In 2017 she released the follow up EP Terror, written immediately following the 2016 election.

In 2018 Steady Holiday signed to Barsuk; her new LP 'Nobody's Watching' was announced June 21st along with the title track, with the full LP slated for an August 24th release.
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Steady Holiday - Under the Influence

Steady Holiday - Under the Influence

L.A.’s Dre Babinski is Steady Holiday, “Under the Influence” is her effortlessly-cinematic new single, and it sounds like Saint Etienne reborn, and heaven. Under the Influence is also the title of her debut album, out from June 24th care of Brooklyn’s Infinite Best Recordings. You can download four of its tracks and pre-order the whole thing on colored vinyl or digitally by visiting her Bandcamp page now.



Steady Holiday is Dre Babinski. Until now you could find her playing in bands around LA, opening for big tent stuff like Fitz and the Tantrums and Fun dot, and making a record with some friends from Dr. Dog. She enjoyed the sidewoman life, but longed for an outlet of her own, writing and recording in secret, developing a body of work about hidden desire itself. Under the Influence is her coming out party, featuring Josh Adams (Jenny Lewis) and produced by Gus Seyffert (The Black Keys, Beck), set for release June 24th on Infinite Best (Mr Twin Sister, Ava Luna). First single “Your Version of Me” was released to immediate praise, garnering 200,000+ streams, and caught the attention of Coachella/Goldenvoice founder Paul Tollett, who added the band to Coachella 2016. Steady Holiday will play a residency at the Satellite in LA every Monday in June, come hang.

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