Goth Babe, the musical moniker of nomadic conservationist Griff Washburn, has lived a few lives. Before the project’s transformation into whimsical, reverb-heavy electro indie-pop, Goth Babe was Fuzz Ghost, playful Nashville garage rock. Then Washburn moved—from New York to Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest without a band of instrumentalists in tow—learning to experiment out of necessity with Ableton, a mini keyboard, and anything that would fit in his solar-powered camper. “Sometimes when I’m looking at a mountain range, all I want to listen to is Flume or Tame Impala,” he tells Apple Music. “They’re sounds that enhance your environment.” On the three-track Protect Our Winters EP, both benefitting and named after a nonprofit fighting climate change, Goth Babe continues to develop. Recorded in a tiny mobile home with a modest studio setup, the music is as expansive as the bucolic surroundings that inspire it. “If there’s anything [fans] could take from listening to this EP, I hope it’s that they get stoked to go outside and do something, whether it be playing on a swing set or climbing a 10,000-foot mountain,” he says. “I just hope people feel inspired to get outside and embrace the natural world.” Below, Goth Babe details his EP, track by track. Blue Skies “The song is about feeling, seeing, and being inspired and comforted by the ocean. With all the surfing that I've done over the past few years, I can be out there and still catch myself in awe. 'Blue Skies' has a feature with Dre’es. This is the first time I've ever had another artist featured on one of my songs. He raps, and he does an incredible job. I reached out to him—slid into his DMs, you might say—and we’ve been buddies ever since.” Laurelhurst “‘Laurelhurst’ was written in Laurelhurst Park in Portland, Oregon, in the camper, in 2017. I have zero idea what the song is about. There's enough general words that anyone can make their own story out of whatever the song is about. I find that pretty exciting.” I Wanna Help Your Mind “I wrote this song in the tiny home last November or September. I drove it two hours across the Columbia Gorge and through a mountain range. That was pretty wild. I plopped it on a new piece of property in Oregon. It’s about the mental struggles that we have daily, but more specifically, it is about being in a relationship with someone and having these mental struggles come to the surface.”