Vinyl Record
Baby Queen - Quarter Life Crisis
Baby Queen - Quarter Life Crisis on LP vinyl. A 2023 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2023
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2023 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Quarter Life Crisis is Baby Queen's full-length coming-of-age statement, released in 2023 after a run of singles, EPs and a close association with the Heartstopper audience that helped define her early fanbase. Bella Latham writes with the self-awareness of someone both inside and outside online youth culture: she can turn insecurity into a hook, then undercut the hook with a line that sounds like a diary entry sent too quickly. The record moves through bright indie-pop, spoken-sung confession, crunchy guitar accents and synth-glossed choruses, using the idea of the mid-twenties crisis as more than a title. "We Can Be Anything" reaches for possibility, "Dream Girl" and "Love Killer" complicate romance and self-image, while "Die Alone", "23" and "A Letter to Myself at 17" pull the album toward loneliness, memory and unfinished adulthood. The result is a debut that understands pop as a place to be funny, anxious, wounded and theatrical at once.
The album matters because it turns a very contemporary kind of self-scrutiny into a proper pop record rather than a string of captions. Baby Queen's writing speaks to listeners who grew up fluent in irony but still want sincerity, and Quarter Life Crisis gives that tension a melodic, sharply voiced form.
For a 2020s pop collection, Quarter Life Crisis captures the post-EP, fandom-driven debut album era: an artist with a clear online voice, a television-adjacent audience and enough songwriting identity to stretch beyond a single viral moment. It rewards listeners who want modern pop records with personality in the lyrics as well as polish in the choruses.
Bright alt-pop and indie-pop with diary-like lyrics, crisp synths, guitar flashes, conversational vocals and choruses that balance anxiety with release.
Recommended for: Fans of self-aware 2020s pop songwriting; Heartstopper listeners following Baby Queen beyond soundtrack moments; Collectors building a modern Polydor pop section; Listeners who like confessional lyrics with sharp melodic hooks; Fans of albums about early-adult confusion, friendship and identity.
Is Quarter Life Crisis Baby Queen's debut album? Yes. It is her debut full-length album, following earlier EP and single releases that established her voice before the album cycle. What year should be used for this record? Use 2023. The album campaign and commercial release context belong to 2023, with physical and deluxe formats appearing during that same album era. What are the key songs on Quarter Life Crisis? "We Can Be Anything", "Dream Girl", "Quarter Life Crisis", "Die Alone" and "A Letter to Myself at 17" give the clearest map of the album's emotional range.