We are pleased to help deliver Swamp Baby’s new album For Baby’s Babies!
A musical storybook for a generation that is slowly but surely coming to grips with the joys, dangers & sorrows of adulthood, For Baby’s Babies, the second album from Upstate New York’s Swamp Baby, builds on the strengths of their acclaimed 2010 debut, All Fours, while staking out new and previously unknown sonic territory.
Praised for its mysterious & dreamy qualities (which had reviewers likening them to Low and Skip Spence) All Fours garnered Swamp Baby uniformly positive reviews from sites like Foxy Digitalis (“one of the best unsung releases to creep out of nowhere this year – don’t miss it.” (9 out of 10 rating)), as well as a prized commendation from their hometown alt-weekly, Metroland, which named them Best Contemporary Folk Band of 2010.
The narrative arc of For Baby’s Babies can be read as one starting from immaturity (the petulant narrator of the carnivalesque “Mirror of Lavender”) to a journey out into the world (in the rocking “Prince Rachmed”, the band members’ doors of perception are wiped clean, helping them realize they literally “can be anyplace”.)
Along the way, there are struggles with disillusionment in one’s society (“Bank of America”, “The Sad Truth About Fun”), tales of love lost & found (“Love Wants to Stay, “Geronimo”, “Love”) and even struggles approaching a cosmic scale (“Warmest Wind” and “The Flood”, the latter of which features a telling excerpt from Chinese-American author Ha Jin’s poetic distillation of ancient Chinese history.)
All in all, a major step forward for Swamp Baby on its continuing journey out of its shell.
While there is no “official” CD release show for this album, plans are brewing for some summertime Swamp Baby shows in the Capital Region!
