With Baby, Dijon Remakes the Soundtrack of Home
Dijon’s Baby Finds the Universe Inside a Living Room
Dijon has made a career of stripping away artifice, and his new album Baby takes that ethos to its most radical conclusion. Released with no lead singles and only whispers of its existence—an Instagram screenshot, a website countdown—Baby is an album made in the quietest corners of life and yet destined to echo loudly across contemporary music.
It’s a follow-up weighted with expectation. His 2021 debut Absolutely wasn’t just another critically acclaimed release—it shifted performance culture, inspired a new intimacy in visual presentation, and was canonized as one of the year’s greats by NPR, i-D, and The FADER. For three years, Dijon’s silence only amplified speculation.
But where Absolutely was raw nerve and confrontation, Baby is rooted in the rituals of home. Made alongside collaborators Andrew Sarlo, Henry Kwapis, and Michael Gordon, it is a study of fatherhood, domesticity, and the paradox of finding both mania and serenity in family life. The album’s shifting tones reflect the speed at which life changes when responsibility and love collide.
With contributions to Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE, Justin Bieber’s SWAG, and a cameo in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, Dijon could have taken the spotlight elsewhere. Instead, he chose to craft an album that embodies smallness, care, and the emotional chaos of everyday living. Baby isn’t just music—it’s a cultural marker of what it means to make art while raising a family in an age of distraction.