Stephanie Babirak Releases New LP, Shares New Single + Video “Apocalypse”
New York City-based harpist, singer-songwriter, and composer Stephanie Babirak moves fluidly between the classical and contemporary worlds, blending the harp’s ethereal tone into the unexpected setting of folk pop.
Today, Babirak unveils the album “Rotten Fruit” and the focus track, “Apocalypse”, an upbeat ballad about what it means to love another person. Combining Babirak’s signature harp sounds with acoustic guitars and polished drums, “Apocalypse” testifies to the pain of giving yourself to another.
“This song is about living right now in this political moment,” Babirak shares. “Which often feels surreal and absurd and scary. I think we all have a general feeling that everything feels broken and is out of control, but yet…our everyday lives still have to carry on. We still fall in love, still go to work, still have to take the dog out for walks. ‘Apocalypse’ is about how strange and surreal that can be and about how love and connection can still feel meaningful even though it feels like we’re on a sinking ship.”
The album title “Rotten Fruit” is a reference to a bible verse about bad trees bearing bad fruit (i.e., the idea that you learn who or what something really is by paying attention to what it actually produces), because at a certain point, you have to believe what people do, not what they say. These themes of reexamining accepted truths are central to Babirak’s work, as she uses the unexpected blend of harp, sharp lyricism, and incisive perspective to cast familiar ideas in a new light.
Blending the harp’s ethereal tones with folk-pop, synths, and biblical imagery, Babirak moves fluidly between classical and contemporary songwriting. Written in collaboration with longtime creative partner Peter Scoma, Rotten Fruit is a meditation on goodness, guilt, and the things we inherit, asking what it means to be “bad” — as a daughter, a partner, and an artist.
While the album draws on inherited language and biblical symbolism, its focus remains in the present tense: What do we do when words and actions don’t align? What happens after clarity arrives? Rotten Fruit doesn’t offer easy resolution—it documents the slow shift from disbelief to acceptance, and the uneasy freedom that follows.
“Apocalypse” and Rotten Fruit are out now.
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