Peterborough-based solo artist Occupation Baby is an artist that thrives in the cracks between sleepless nights and creative friction. And on their latest single ‘Satisfied’, insomnia is the engine driving every jagged rhythm and ghostly delay.
Built from the ground up in a home studio, ‘Satisfied’ pulses with energy and tension. There’s an almost mechanical grit to the way the beat locks in. The vocal lines feel both stripped back and haunted, delivering lyrical fragments that drift between numbness and agitation. It’s less about the chaos of being awake too long, and more about the hollowness when everything goes quiet.
Beneath the static, there’s a clever architecture at work. Drawing from a pool of influences as wide as early 2010s dubstep, alt-R&B, and brooding UK guitar music, Occupation Baby fuses atmospheric tension with melodic clarity. The drum programming also gives the track an unpredictability that mirrors the subject matter.
For an artist doing it all solo, Occupation Baby captures something that feels deeply shared. ‘Satisfied’ speaks to anyone who’s ever tried to outrun their own mind, only to circle back to the same question: what happens when the work is done, but the rest never comes?
Fans of artists like James Blake, early The Weeknd, or Nothing But Thieves will find themselves at home here, though this track offers its own brand of late-night reflection.
