CD REVIEW: BABY JESUS – Baby Jesus

CD REVIEW: BABY JESUS – Baby Jesus
Independant
November, 2015
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7 ½ /10

 

The Bible makes scant reference to the Baby Jesus’ musical tastes, so we can only speculate whether he’d have been a fan of dirty, scuzzed-out, grease-stained Danish psych-garage lunacy.

All ten tracks on this raucous slab of strangeness sound like rats on bad acid having a knife fight in the midst of a psych ward riot, or – to put it (slightly) more musically – Radio Birdman providing the soundtrack to a bloody zombie massacre.

That it is so completely unnaturally frenzied is probably why it is so utterly compelling, with distorted and malevolent vocals skulking over a pulsating organ and a tambourine-heavy groove.

That is Baby Jesus in a nutshell: quite possibly God’s eldest’s favourite band.

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