Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club
Holy Serpent
Orange Ocean (CN)
The Great Spy Experiment
Wormrot featuring Gabriel Dubko and weish
Forests
The Jansen (ID)
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS (JP)
Baybeats 2025
Forests
7 Oct 2023, Powerhouse² (Singtel Waterfront Theatre at Esplanade)
Forests, 7 Oct
Premiere: 28 Feb 2024, 9pm
Riotous and raucous emo/math-rock trio Forests took the stage by storm on 7 Oct 2023. Since 2014, Forests has gained a global cult following of listeners through its unique blend of 90s-influenced emo with math-pop perfection. The Singapore-based trio gained a huge increase in global listenership upon the release of its sophomore album Spending Eternity In A Japanese Convenience Store, with word-of-mouth buzz from fans and critics alike hailing them as new heroes of the emo/math rock genre.
The group has been featured on publications such as The Ringer, Stereogum, NME and Bandwagon. Forests is the only Asian band highlighted on Vulture’s list of 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All Time as well as The Ringer’s The Most Important Emo Songs Of Every Year, with Tamago named as their pick for 2016’s most important emo song—a huge honour to be mentioned alongside legendary genre stalwarts such as American Football, Jawbreaker and Sunny Day Real Estate.
About the festival
Held from 6 – 8 Oct 2023, the 22nd edition of Baybeats at Esplanade presented an exciting line-up of homegrown and international acts. As Singapore’s largest alternative music festival, Baybeats is kept free, and for the 2023 edition, was supported by new partnerships formed with overseas music festivals such as Taiwan’s Golden Melody Awards and Festival (GMA) and Hong Kong's Ear Up Music Festival, as well as Principal Sponsor KEEN.
The first set of four recordings will premiere 8 Feb 2024, 9pm. The second set of performance recordings will be released by the end of Feb 2024.
