{"id":7161,"date":"2015-10-21T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-haybaby-sleepy-kids\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:47","slug":"album-review-haybaby-sleepy-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-haybaby-sleepy-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Haybaby – Sleepy Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HaybabyStraight outta Brooklyn, Haybaby<\/b> are a refreshing dose of retro indie with a slap of slop rock. Leslie Hong’s voice alternates between a soothing croon and a blood-curdling scream on this collection of thoughtful tracks punctuated by bursts of feedback fuelled hysteria, among the quirky mechanical guitar lines and bubbly bass sound.<\/p>\n

There’s a cool indie vibe to the opening tracks as ‘Old Friends’<\/i> starts out all angular, before descending into an aggressive blur come the chorus; as the guitar distorts and feeds back, not dissimilar to classic Sonic Youth. ‘New Friends’<\/i> meanwhile is a little cooler as it rolls to a groovy bass and understated guitar. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Things take a slightly experimental turn on ‘Pizza Party’<\/i>; that nice bassy vibe is still there, but after a patient build-up, the guitar intensity picks up – depicting the awkward sex theme of the song – and is precisely what indie should be about; manic distortion. This is by no means the only high point, as ‘Her’<\/i> kicks along to quirky histrionics, while ‘Elevator Song’<\/i> is bright, meandering and melodically superb.<\/p>\n

However, the stand out track is ‘Edelweiss’<\/i>, which starts out downbeat with more signature guitar lines and flashes of intensity, it eventually builds as the guitars layer and the pace picks up to a climax, bowing out in a flurry of noise.<\/p>\n

Haybaby<\/b> seem to work best when they push things a little bit harder and take noisy risks. Once or twice they fall into a kind of comfort zone, like on ‘Sharks’<\/i>, but when they go a little darker, as on `Edelweiss’<\/i> and ‘Doored’<\/i>, they really show their potential; ones to watch. <\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘Sleepy Kids’<\/em> by Haybaby<\/strong> is released on 23rd October on Tiny Engines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

HayBaby<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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