ALBUM REVIEW: Baby Strange – World Below
There’s a real cleverness about the contrast between these very modern themes and their throwback sound, a sparkier take on garage-flecked indie that proves wildly catchy.
The initial moody grooves of the title track blossom into a big, glistening chorus, while the breezy ‘Beating In Time’ flexes its muscles with a jaunty guitar line and a playful hook. There’s a real sense of eclecticism too: there is a subversive energy in the sloganeering choruses that recall anarchic ravers The KLF, who famously terrorised the 1992 Brit Awards. The distantly Depeche Mode-influenced ‘When It Calls’ brings a rippling guitar chorus into harmony with fuzzy verses, while the delicately controlled chaos of ‘I Feel So Cold But It’s Warm Outside’, on paper, could well sound like a whole different band, but somehow, they still feel like they belong on the same record. The Glaswegian trio have executed this one with style.
World Below is OUT NOW!