Baby Jesus: Baby Jesus [Album Review]

Baby Jesus
Baby Jesus
Yippee Ki Yay Records [2015]

Fire Drill Album Review: My second review of 2016 and it just so happens to be another international psychedelic act. Formed after an intense trip to India, Halland County, Sweden’s Baby Jesus is a noisy and raw trip back to the 60’s. As soon as track one, “Nothing For Me,” hits your ears Baby Jesus is the band that somehow didn’t make it to the Nuggets or Back From The Grave compilations. You hear it all over the album with nods to Max Frost And The Troopers, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvet Underground, The Novas, The Alarm Clocks, and sounds from today. Baby Jesus’s self-titled album is fast, fun, and consistent. But, while Baby Jesus is consistent their originality suffers for it. In a scene full of garage and psych revival albums, nostalgia is always hard to pull off like good examples being Rose Windows’ The Sun Dogs and Tame Impala’s Innerspeaker. In the case of Baby Jesus, their tunes play like fun rehashes as apposed to homages. Baby Jesus has a great base and if they want to succeed with their next album experimentation could be a good place to start.

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Christopher Tahy

From an early age I’ve been in love with music. Whether it was queuing up Sesame Street vinyl on my Fisher Price turntable. Using our family stereo stack to rock out to Billy Idol, R.E.M, Talking Head, Green Day, and John “Cougar” Mellencamp with my dad. Brought up on the classic rock radio station really helped lay the proper foundation for what music was and what it could be. While I do listen to the entire musical spectrum, my favorites are Metal, Soul, Jazz, Shoegaze, and Psychedelic anything. Basically an emphasis on anything rock, I never turn down a good riff.