It’s been a hell of a year for Dijon. He turned up on Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE. He co-wrote, produced, and sang alongside Justin Bieber on SWAG standout ‘DEVOTION’, a partnership that carried him onstage at Coachella and, this past February, to two Grammy nominations — Album of the Year and Producer of the Year. He showed up in the trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, standing next to Leonardo DiCaprio like it was nothing. And in the middle of all of it, four years after he all but vanished from public view to start a family, he put out Baby — the long-rumoured follow-up to a debut that never really left rotation.

Baby was built at home, largely in isolation, with his new family close by and a small circle of collaborators — Andrew Sarlo, Henry Kwapis, and Michael Gordon (Mk.gee) — filling in the rest. There were no advance singles, no rollout in the traditional sense, just a cryptic tracklist screenshot and a countdown clock on his website. The album itself keeps the interior, unresolved quality that’s become his signature, but points it somewhere new: new fatherhood, and the disorientation of a life reordered overnight. Across its twelve songs — ‘Baby!’, ‘Another Baby!’, ‘HIGHER!’, ‘(Freak It)’, ‘Yamaha’, ‘FIRE!’, ‘(Referee)’, ‘Rewind’, ‘my man’, ‘loyal & marie’, ‘Automatic’, ‘Kindalove’ — Baby moves between euphoria and something closer to grief, often within the same verse, tracking the mania that comes with everything changing at once.