Video: Babes, ‘Isn’t It Love’

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In case you missed last month’s introduction, Babes are a little bit peculiar. Not in a so-strange-I’m-averting-my-glances way. Kind of in a please-cast-me-in-your-“Twin Peaks”-spinoff way. When not contemplating being sad or horny, or answering the “Babes Hotline” (470-BABES-77), siblings Sarah, Aaron and Zach Rayne and bandmates Bryan Harris and Jeffrey Baird. make seriously fetching retro-pop. The quintet’s debut EP is out this week via Harvest Records, featuring the lilting “Isn’t It Love” (of course it is) and the undulating pop gem “ATMO,” which, According To My Opinion, is about as good as it gets these days. You swoon, I swoon, we all swoon; then we try not to allow the video for “Isn’t It Love,” which features John Ennis, to infiltrate our dreams.

||| Live: Babes celebrate their EP release tonight at the Satellite, and they play a free show Chinatown Summer Nights on Saturday, June 14.

||| Previously: “Die” video featuring Eric Wareheim