Baby Jane is having a moment, and she knows exactly what to do with it. The rising independent electronic artist — the self-styled cult figure carving her own shadowy lane through EDM — has just shared “Midnight Highway,” a glittering, trance-leaning new single that pushes deeper into the synthwave dreamworld she’s been quietly building all year. It’s the latest offering from her forthcoming second album, Winter Forever, out Friday, July 10.

Listen to “Midnight Highway” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@babyjanemusic

“I wrote it about one romantic night with someone you can’t forget,” Baby Jane says of the track. “The beat makes me feel like I’m seeing diamonds shimmering in the dark.” That’s not just a poetic flourish — the song genuinely sparkles, all angelic synth pads and a pulse that hits somewhere between the witching hour and a long drive nowhere. Call it angelcore. Call it gothic house. Call it whatever you want, really, as long as you’re playing it loud.

The accompanying music video pushes the mood even further into the uncanny, drawing visual cues from two pillars of survival horror: Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Misty industrial streets, dark dreamy towns, and that distinctly low-res unease of mid-2000s console horror — all of it filtered through Baby Jane’s cybernetic, cult-leader aesthetic. “I think my music resonates with the gaming community,” she says, “and they have supported me, so I like to give a nod to them.”

That nod is well earned. Baby Jane hosted a virtual meet-and-greet on Roblox last Halloween, performing an original DJ set inside a nightclub themed after her own world. Her viral track “Eternal Embrace” soundtracked the indie horror game Shawarma Kiosk, and “Starry Eyed” — a track that features Baby Jane playing Silent Hill on a CRT in its video — has racked up more than 100,000 creates on TikTok. Her fans, known collectively as the Coven, are the kind of audience that shows up for the worldbuilding as much as the bass drops.

Winter Forever, her follow-up to 2025’s A Grave Marked Strange, traces a spirit moving through nihilism and emotional desolation, only to find freedom by surrendering to rhythm, to movement, to the body dissolving inside sound. It pulls from Russian pop classics and the raw, internet-born bedroom hardstyle scenes that have been bubbling under the algorithm for years. “An album that I started with the intention of expressing loneliness morphed into an album of escape and personal freedom,” she explains.

The thirteen-track record threads together occult symbols, pagan religions, surrealist horror, abandoned concrete buildings, pixelated video games, and desolate fields. It thrives in paradox — introversion and escapism, sadness and liberation, isolation and transcendence. Baby Jane does not escape the cold. She makes it sacred.

Winter Forever arrives July 10. Pre-save it, prepare your Coven robes accordingly, and keep “Midnight Highway” on repeat until then.