Dublin-born songwriter Ailbhe Reddy is back with a single that’s as breathless as a clenched sigh. “So Quickly, Baby” is her first hit from the forthcoming album "KISS BIG", released through Don Giovanni Records. With a visual that’s as jarringly compelling as Su Mustecaplioglu directs it, the song is a quick hit of intimacy. Reddy beckons you behind the curtain of her emotions, and the ride is alluringly rough.
“So Quickly, Baby” is a delicate dance between composed and rattled. The verses work overtime to maintain their manners and their composure, while the choruses do the exact opposite. The record is essentially a piece of merchandise, it unflinchingly captures the phenomenon we all know, the bewilderment of seeing someone else in their element while you’re destitute. “So Quickly, Baby” pulsates with the exact ebb at which its fulfillment resides. The arrangement is edgy and edifying, relentlessly marking the tired track between one and the other, keeping pace with her verses that learn forward to hug and the chorus that screams in your face. “So Quickly, Baby” seems the neurotic whiplash of watching someone else at ease while you’re drowning in plain sight, forlornly understandable while it’s specifically personal. With "KISS BIG", it seems Ailbhe Reddy is flirting with exploring the confined fireworks of unreadiness.
In “So Quickly, Baby,” you’re left over with the restless calm of a working bad mood, hellbent on listening to the record that swears to widen this no-man’s-land of hurting, sensible determination.