Phabies – I Care For You
Phabies, the indie rock quintet from Grand Rapids, have shared a new single from their highly anticipated sophomore album The Curse of Caring to be released June 13.
Songwriter and vocalist Laura Hobson found the inspiration for “I Care For You” on a mushroom-foraging hike, while attending a DIY artist retreat hosted by her producer Jake Merritt in Cincinnati. She overheard a woman on the trail remark, “These kids have too much city in ‘em these days.” The passing quip became the chorus of this jubilant, surf-rock single, a tongue-in-cheek inquiry into the dangers of surplus comfort—There’s too much city in you now / Ain’t gonna lose ya to the crowd / I care for you.
The Curse of Caring explores the inescapable instinct to save—in the context of human relationships as well as humanity’s relationship to the natural world. “I’ve always felt a duty to create something out of nothing,” says Hobson. “Whether that’s changing a grass lawn into a native ecosystem or playing three chords to create a song.” Over the course of the album, Phabies confront a collapsing planet head-on, juxtaposing lyrical severity with sophisticated, upbeat indie rock.
Phabies is Andrew Deters (guitar), Laura Hobson (vocals, guitar, keys), Joshua Holicki (drums), Max McKinnon (keys), and Garrett Stier (bass guitar, vocals). The Curse of Caring was recorded at Sabbath Recording in Cincinnati, Ohio and Local Legend Recording in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The album was mixed by Adrian Olsen (Foxygen, Fruit Bats, Natalie Prass) Jeremy Ferguson (Cage the Elephant, Lambchop, Be Your Own Pet) and Sean Sullivan (Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Kurt Vile), and mastered by Kim Rosen (Aimee Mann, Emmylou Harris, The Milk Carton Kids), with string arrangements by Oliver Hill (Kevin Morby, Wet) and Benjamin Kaufman.
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