FOR FANS OF: High Vis, Title Fight, Basement, Drug Church
LABEL: Run For Cover Records
RELEASE DATE: June 26, 2026
Fiddlehead’s first three records stood as a cohesive trilogy — chronicling frontman Pat Flynn’s experiences of personal loss and his transition into fatherhood — leaving fans with the reasonable assumption that a quiet holding pattern would follow. Flynn himself admitted to feeling fulfilled after 2023’s Death Is Nothing to Us, even questioning whether the group had reached its natural conclusion. But grief, as we know, never follows a schedule.
In the final months of 2024, Flynn faced the sudden loss of his mother. When bandmates Alex Henery and Nick Hinsch flew to his doorstep, their intention wasn’t to write music, but simply to hold space for their friend. In that dark hour, a profound solidarity blossomed, and Baby I’ll Change was born. As an 11-minute, three-song EP released via Run For Cover Records, it’s the shortest release of Fiddlehead’s career, yet it holds an expansive emotional weight, translating raw healing progressions into what could be their most substantial work yet.
To bring these tracks to life, the band stepped outside their usual comfort zone and traveled to North Carolina to work with producer Alex Farrar (Wednesday, MJ Lenderman). Farrar’s influence brings a tangible sense of breathing room to the band’s signature sound, stripping things back in a way that feels both authentic and tense. Rather than relying solely on persistent post-hardcore urgency, the instrumentation is given space to expand, allowing vulnerability to take center stage.
Their patience pays off across the EP’s brief runtime, creating a cohesive and perfectly paced tracklist. Opening track “The Dogs” serves as a vibrant love letter to brotherhood and the band itself, celebrating their enduring companionship and the sanctuary they’ve built together over the years. It’s what Fiddlehead does best: authentic, relatable emotion. “Porchlight” follows closely with new textures and soaring melodies, cultivating a refreshing sense of evolution within the band’s discography.
The heart of the record, however, remains the title track. “Baby I’ll Change” was born during a transformative final day in the studio, evolving from a simple acoustic guitar riff into a slow-burning, all-encompassing anthem. The title shares a poignant connection to the late Boston hardcore figure Jimmy Flynn, whose signature party phrase inspired its core themes of addiction, hope, and the agonizing, circular struggle for self-improvement. A raw voicemail clip from Jimmy brings the EP to a devastating conclusion.
This heavy internal landscape is what Fiddlehead captures best, and they mirror it beautifully in the track’s music video, directed by Henery. Chronicling an isolating loop of grief—the mundane commute, the surreal feeling of the world moving while you’re stuck — the visual follows Flynn as he finds himself in a support group meeting that feels intentionally ambiguous, generating a tension that feels raw to the viewer. The final frames deliver a heavy blow: the camera cuts back to show an empty chair where he had just sat — a devastating visual metaphor.
When a band approaches every record as if it might be their last, perhaps those moments aren’t final bows, but unexpected rebirths. With Baby I’ll Change, Fiddlehead is reborn, meeting us exactly where we are and suggesting they may just keep this going until the wheels fall off. We can only hope.
CATCH FIDDLEHEAD ON TOUR
6/24 Zurich, CH @ Dynamo &
6/25 Ysselsteyn, NL @ Jera On Air &
6/26 Paris, FR @ Mia Mao &
6/28 Manchester, UK @ Outbreak
7/13 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre *
7/14 Seattle, WA @ Washington Hall *
7/15 Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
7/16 Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club *
7/17 Salt Lake City, UT @ Church & State *
7/18 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
7/30 Philadelphia, PA @ Lithuanian Music Hall ^
7/31 New York, NY @ Warsaw ^
8/12 Toronto @ Lithuanian House +
8/13 Detroit @ El Club +
8/14 Chicago @ Thalia Hall +
9/11 Los Angeles, CA @ The Globe %
9/13 Mexico City @ Warped Tour
* w/ Narrow Head, Knumears, Destiny Bond
+ w/ Narrow Head, Knumears, Sissy Boys
^ w/ Elliott, Self Defense Family, Posición Unida
% w/ Pity Sex, Febuary, Purest Form
& w/ Basement
