 Baby Teeth - www.babyteethmusic.com
The Baby Teeth Album (released 2005)
Lujo Records - www.lujorecords.com
Do you like the 60s, 70s or 80s style of soft rock, or is it called adult contemporary rock? Whatever it is, Baby Teeth fall into that catagory. The band has reaped heaps of praise from all over the place, but to me it sound very much like rehashed 70s and 80s blues rock. I don't dispute the band's ability to create catchy and upbeat music, but it reall reminds me of early seventies pop rock. Well, maybe not even pop, more along the lines of that folky/rocky period of the late sixties, early seventies. Either way, you feel like you are in a time warp with the keyboards, soft vocals and groovy bass lines. I admit the band is good, but in my mind there is a limit to being retro. I think the limit stops when you actually duplicate what was done before. Baby Teeth sound like those albums that Time Life sells on Sundays. You know, "The Best Of Rock N Roll Harpsichord. Get each of the 20 track volumes, with only 50 volumes to buy. There's no obligation. But we will bill your credit card each month and send you another volume of shitty music." Yeah, something like that. The band tries to be humorous on a few tracks, like on "The Three Sisters"..."I hope you can tolerate my lactose, I hope you like sucking my fat toes," but really I think the lyrics were the only one's that would fit in the rhyme. Anyway, the catchiest of all the songs on the album, are perhaps the band's best: "Loving Strokes" and "Rock The Boat". However, of the twelve tracks on the disc, my personal favorite has to be "Big Trucks", it's all of a minute long and heavy on the rock n roll blues riff. Good album from what I can tell, but not punk rock by any stretching of the words. -MG |
