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babe rainbow

Listening to Babe Rainbow is like hopping into a time machine. The band’s groovy, psychedelic soundscapes, which conjure images of flower children and peace signs in technicolour, are straight out of the 1960s – you’d be forgiven if you thought the music was actually of that time.

But despite their retro aesthetic, the quartet are actually from Byron Bay and making music right now. True to their hometown roots, singer Angus Dowling says the songwriting process is more coastal than jammy. “It starts on a nylon acoustic guitar – really chilled chord

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