Boy Howdy by Backyard Baseball
Things get away from you.
Backyard Baseball set out to write an album chronicling the imagined emotional reality of the cast of early 2010s TV hit Jersey Shore.
Instead, they wrote Boy Howdy, ten sprawling tracks spanning a wide variety of influences and sounds, from jangle and dream pop to midwest emo and neo-psychedelia; leaning into a maximalist approach to songwriting and studio magic, as songs warp, build, and cannibalize themselves; and exploring themes of longing, personal/societal collapse, and reconciling past and present.
Tracklist
| 1. | Bad News Boys | 5:29 |
| 2. | Kimmy Gibbler | 4:24 |
| 3. | Interstitial 3 | 2:13 |
| 4. | Transient | 3:28 |
| 5. | Annie Frazier | 2:45 |
| 6. | No Panic / All Panic | 5:19 |
| 7. | Grease | 4:54 |
| 8. | Vines | 3:54 |
| 9. | Avian | 4:46 |
| 10. | Sandbars | 2:50 |
Credits
released November 7, 2025
All songs written and performed by Backyard Baseball.
Backyard Baseball is Colin Rolfe and Jesse Rolfe.
Recorded at Community Music Space (Red Hook, NY) and Majestic Basement Mountain Studios (Ethereal).
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Rolfe.
Album art by Colin Rolfe.
Additional vocals on Avian and synth on Grease by Liz Louie (Auratus).
Egg shaker on No Panic/All Panic by Abby “Egg Girl” Hanna-Rolfe.
Additional vocals on No Panic/All Panic by Frank Makri.
All songs written and performed by Backyard Baseball.
Backyard Baseball is Colin Rolfe and Jesse Rolfe.
Recorded at Community Music Space (Red Hook, NY) and Majestic Basement Mountain Studios (Ethereal).
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Rolfe.
Album art by Colin Rolfe.
Additional vocals on Avian and synth on Grease by Liz Louie (Auratus).
Egg shaker on No Panic/All Panic by Abby “Egg Girl” Hanna-Rolfe.
Additional vocals on No Panic/All Panic by Frank Makri.
License
All rights reserved.
The Backyard Baseball boys are Colin and Jesse Rolfe, brothers from New York's Hudson Valley.