Baby Monster recently announced the soon to release self-titled debut album that’s hitting the shelves June 27th. To celebrate the band is giving away a track each week leading up to the album launch. This is their first. Follow Big Stereo for the rest of the releases!
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Baby Monster is an electronic pop group comprised of Danny Sternbaum and Marty Larson Xu. Their first track debuted on Big Stereo – the band’s recent singles label home. For the past 18 months, the band have been juggling laying down album tracks alongside opening shows for Klaxons, Miike Snow and Metric.
In true D.I.Y fashion, everything on the forthcoming album has been written, recorded, produced and mixed by the band themselves. Drawing from 80′s acts such as New Order, as well as 90′s shoegaze and brit pop bands, the record explores the concept of the past, present. and future all folding together into one moment. There is an underlying romanticism that soaks through the songs that is countered with an element of dark dreaminess; more upbeat tracks such as Charlie Sunrise and Mr Success sits comfortably next to low-fi gems such as Russian Lights and Kalookan Queen.
The band have remixed tracks from Gorillaz, Ellie Goulding, Zero7, Wolf Gang, Foster the People and Miami Horror. Previous singles came in the form of limited edition 7 inches ‘Ultraviolence + Beethoven’ on 50 Bones Records + ‘She Comes Alive’ on Big Stereo Records.
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