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Don't Hold Your Breath
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Don't Hold Your Breath
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Released: Feb 6, 2013
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    Don't Hold Your Breath

    3:26

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    Island

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    Talk Like My Baby

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    Do

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    Get Loved

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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Psychedelic / Soul

    Location New Haven, Un

    Profile Views: 54842

    Last Login: 2/6/2013

    Member Since 3/22/2008

    Website myspace.com/fakebabiesmusic

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    "The tension between accessible and abrasive is a big part of why "We Started Blues" works so well, and it's rare for a band to strike that balance as skillfully as Fake Babies has — an achievement that is all the more impressive for coming on the group's first album." - Eric Danton, Hartford Courant ..............Whoever didn't want them some sophisticated thighs? Gay, straight, bi or little green peeps from Mars, you know you want them sophisticated thighs. Here is the soundtrack to all that sophisticated thigh worship goin' on right now around the globe. Fake Babies on the case, with some really far out electro chaos. Best lyric of the week: "I keep my books in the sink." Sexy, original, and delicious. .......................Fake Babies, We Started Blues (Safety Meeting Records, safetymeeting.net). More than just a collection of songs, Fake Babies' first full-length is a unified album and a remarkably confident and stylish statement of purpose — a digital fever dream, a celebration of terror-dance. From their 2009 self-titled CD-R, they've retained the underlying narcotic abandon and creepy menace of their music (not to mention some of the strongest songs) while cleaning up the fidelity immensely. With production help from the Fuzzy Rainbow crew, the artful intricacies of layered synths, guitars, samples, live and electronic drums, and found sounds (good job on working a train whistle into more than one beat, guys) shine through. It's a rewarding headphone experience, but more than anything, this is party music, specifically for some artkids' party where everyone in attendance hopes something weird will happen. And it does: Hopping from genuine bangers like "Do," "LA" and "Get Loved" to weird cuts like the essentially undanceable "S T Dance" and the noisy freakout "Blow Your Head Off," We Started Blues wobbles on the line between pleasant dream and nightmare. In total, it's all an impressive arc: From the euphoric synths and "Come out and show your face, son" refrain of opener "Literature" to the slow-burning, impassioned monster that is the closing "Live Without You" — the song whose refrain gives the album its title — there are recurring mentions of brothers and sisters, parents and kids, repeated verbatim from song to song or tweaked slightly in a way that sets up a dialogue reaching across these songs. This is an album that deserves to be heard by a ton of people — and seeing as Fake Babies have thus far demonstrated excellence at embodying their moment, perhaps it will be. —Brian LaRue ..................I've always taken as given that we'll all eventually wake up in a post-apocalyptic dystopia not unlike Terry Gilliam's Brazil. In that particular nightmare scenario, huge loudspeakers on rusted towers blast Fake Babies in all directions. Maybe it's a society-wide kneejerk reaction to bubblegum pop that the post-industrial electronic sludge peddled by Fake Babies was voted best new music in Connecticut by The Boston Phoenix, or maybe we're all just doing more drugs than we used to. In either case, these guys are gonna be huge. Fake Babies began as a duo in 2007 with Justin Roberts and Robert Nuzzello Jr. The group has since expanded to include Gary Velush and Jay Sirianni, and is now signed to New Haven's Safety Meeting Records, who will be releasing Fake Babies' debut LP We Started Blues on February 18th, 2010. Just as miners in rural Kentucky wrote mountain ballads to express the trials of their time, Fake Babies convey the full extent of New Haven's battle with urban poverty, crime (a national study ranked it the 18th most dangerous city in the country), and commercial blight through a brand of electronic creation that's marked by a tendency towards improvisation and open experimentation. While I've heard them compared to witchhouse/rapegaze hoodlums Salem (and this is true in so much as both bands share a certain gritty aesthetic), Fake Babies have real technical virtuosity and an overarching musicality that allows them to transcend the repetitious patterns that plague most electronic groups. Let's say I traveled back to 1968 and gave Can a laptop with Ableton and some midi controllers, then brought them back to 2010 New Haven and locked them in a room with nothing but the Devo box set--you'd pretty much get Fake Babies. "With woozy synths, processed drum machines and even-more-processed vocals, beats alternately insistently pulsing and jagged, Fake Babies sound weird, arty, chemical and spacey, but also melodically inviting and often downright danceable." - Brian LaRue "New Haven Advocate" (http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14331) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... they make brooding, futuristic sounding, synth lead pop songs packed full of distorted vocals and a whole host of experimental bleeps and bloops and squeals ... they are now currently located with their feet firmly in the sand, making music that sounds like nothing you have ever heard before." - Jamila Scott "Fucking Dance" (http://fuckingdance.blogspot.com/2009/04/fake-babies.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Their music is deeply creative and experimental, highly risky and most certainly, successful.... The work that Fake Babies has going on feels like Animal Collective and Timbaland had a [fake] baby…it's a sort of amazing electro-hop fusion that blows a lot of most recent sound experiments things out of the water." - Nelly Kate (http://nellykate.wordpress.com) ...... .

  • Members

    Contact: fakebabiesmusic@gmail.com Robert James Nuzzello Jr. Justin Courtney Roberts Gary Kiernan Velush Jason Norman Sirianni

  • Influences

    glass, pools, place, mercury, pianos, cake, d'angelo, fire, fruit candy, mansions, seasons, beats, magic, death, social security...........

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"With woozy synths, processed drum machines and even-more-processed vocals, beats alternately insistently pulsing and jagged, Fake Babies sound weird, arty, chemical and spacey, but also melodically inviting and often downright danceable." - Brian LaRue "New Haven Advocate" (http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=14331) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... they make brooding, futuristic sounding, synth lead pop songs packed full of distorted vocals and a whole host of experimental bleeps and bloops and squeals ... they are now currently located with their feet firmly in the sand, making music that sounds like nothing you have ever heard before." - Jamila Scott "Fucking Dance" (http://fuckingdance.blogspot.com/2009/04/fake-babies.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Their music is deeply creative and experimental, highly risky and most certainly, successful.... The work that Fake Babies has going on feels like Animal Collective and Timbaland had a [fake] baby…it’s a sort of amazing electro-hop fusion that blows a lot of most recent sound experiments things out of the water." - Nelly Kate (http://nellykate.wordpress.com) Photobucket ..You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM's MySpace Profile Editor!..

Member Since:

March 22, 2008

Members:

contact - fakebabiesmusic@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert James Nuzzello Jr. Photobucket Justin Courtney Roberts Photobucket Velush KiernanPhotobucket jay Photobucket

Influences:

glass, pools, place, mercury, pianos, babies, cake, d'angelo, fire, the party, fruit candy, mansions, seasons, beats, magic, death, social security...........

Record Label:

Safety Meeting Records

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