{"id":76768,"date":"2019-02-28T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=76768"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:25:03","slug":"review-backyard-babies-silver-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-backyard-babies-silver-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Backyard Babies &#8211; Silver &#038; Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-76770\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Cover-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\">Backyard Babies<\/strong> burst onto the Swedish sleaze-rock scene back in 1989 with enough swagger and grit to make everyone sit up and pay attention. Celebrating thirty years in the business, they\u2019re returning with new record \u2018<em>Silver &amp; Gold<\/em>\u2019 but sadly, this isn\u2019t a medal-winner, it doesn\u2019t even deserve the wooden spoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Good Morning Midnight\u2019<\/em> kicks things off and sure, it sounds a bit dated, and while it\u2019s not particularly sleazy there\u2019s a decent riff and a few playful licks in there. \u2018<em>Simple Being Sold<\/em>\u2019 doesn\u2019t fare so well. Two songs in and you\u2019re beginning to wonder if they should be euthanised, after three you suspect they already have been. Brainless music is all well and good, but this is braindead, heartless and without an ounce of anything to hold your interest. Just listen to \u2018<em>Shovin\u2019 Rocks<\/em>\u2019 with its painfully dull refrain of <em>&#8220;Rock N\u2019Roll&#8221;<\/em>, the band sound bored chanting lyrics which would have been pass\u00e9 before the band was founded, never mind now. Yes, AC\/DC may have peddled the same sound for forty-odd years, but at least they had the decency to sound like they were enjoying themselves.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"BACKYARD BABIES - 44 Undead (OFFICIAL VIDEO)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kk5-RrnuG1w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even fans will struggle to find something to like here, there isn\u2019t even an expletive-laden single for a few juvenile kicks. Much of the record is made up of pedestrian plodders, like \u2018<em>Yes To All No<\/em>\u2019, full of awkward rhymes, presented in a dull nasal monotone. Nicke Bord never sings with passion, and there\u2019s no indication he might mean any of the trite nonsense he spouts, it sounds like he\u2019s reading the instructions on a packet of teabags.<\/p>\n<p>Most galling of all is when they throw in the single \u2018<em>Undead 44<\/em>\u2019, with a few solid riffs and licks it hammers home how much fun this could have been. Instead, rather than celebrating their strengths, <strong>Backyard Babies<\/strong> wallow in their weaknesses, making for a record that is impossible to like let alone recommend.<\/p>\n<p>1\/5<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Silver &amp; Gold<\/em>&#8216; by <strong>Backyard Babies<\/strong> is released on 1st March on <strong>Century Media Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Backyard Babies links: <a href=\"http:\/\/backyardbabies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backyardbabies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbabiesofficial?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbabiesofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Ian Kenworthy (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhisperingSand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WhisperingSand<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Backyard Babies wallow in their weaknesses\u2026 this isn\u2019t a medal-winner, it doesn\u2019t even deserve the wooden spoon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":76770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7366,3361,15621,2500,16657],"class_list":["post-76768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-backyard-babies","tag-century-media-records","tag-ian-kenworthy","tag-review","tag-silver-gold"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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