Babehoven, the Hudson, NY-based project of singer/songwriter Maya Bon and producer and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Albert, have announced their new album, I See Them, I See Me, due 18th September 2026 via Double Double Whammy.
I See Them, I See Me, Babehoven’s third studio album, probes into the idea of a “parallax view”– different perspectives on the same reality–as the band seeks to reorient themselves in relation to society’s increasingly warped ways of being and seeing. Through fourteen tracks, Babehoven has crafted a collection that they say “gets back to the heart of what makes music meaningful and life worth living.”
For the first time Babehoven invited in three different engineers to capture the songs in four different studios. The line-up includes Sam Evian, Kevin Copeland, and Phil Weinrobe, who also acted as a co-producer. “We wanted to incorporate a fresh, live, honest feel into the recordings,” the band says. “We actively tried to have more fun with making this album.” To that end, much of I See Them, I See Me was live-tracked with a six-person ensemble, and Weinrobe instilled a philosophy of “no playback, no headphones, and no preparation” to create maximal presence in the room.
In 2024, during Babehoven’s first headline tour, Bon suffered from paralysis of her right vocal chord. For much of the next year, she was unable to sing, and she was told that she might never recover. Around the time of her vocal injury, Bon underwent nine sessions of high-dose ketamine therapy for depression. “As things with climate change and the state of the world get more dire and confusing,” Bon says, “it’s hard to tell sometimes if what we’re experiencing is reality because it feels so unbelievably grim.” Albert agrees, adding, “We have a beautiful life, and also we are witnessing catastrophe after catastrophe happen around the world.”
You can pre-save/ pre-order I See Them, I See Me at this link.
Alongside the album announcement, the band is sharing a video for lead single Lasagna, directed by Ash Kron. Of the song Bon says “Sometimes when you’re deeply intertwined, you’re so close you can’t really see one another. You want the other to break in two, to reveal what’s underneath. You keep yourself busy, you fill your day with tasks but the other person is waving in the wind all around you, you feel them everywhere. You feel small, stuck, and frantic all at once.”
