No Pain In Pop

Water Rib to Cry Cloud

Baby Venom’s first track includes the hook of one yet to be written. A sad-eyed seed, destined for the dim-light Blancmange found while at the bottom of a new-wave weapon well. The sorry sound of a radio cassette player with dying batteries, cut – dead electric – cutting, at least; it’s last transmission, lost in part, static to static, boom to bust box.

MP3: Baby Venom - Moms and Dads

MP3: Blancmange - Holiday Camp

You can always buy some new ones, I suppose. And, though you may miss out on two minutes of sound never to be bettered in your life-time, there’ll be something there waiting when the power returns, crackling back into life, radio silence coming through… it’s an option, certainly. The difference is you heard that gap. The gaps are where the glower grows.

‘Moms and Dads’ sounds intimate, like a lesson learned once in young adolescence. It finds its way toward what’s next but never manages to quite shake off earlier. Still, it hangs there, serene on a quiet street stoop.

“Moms and Dads” went trancelike & repetitive, but multilayered like an onion,” explains Dave from Baby Venom.

“We’d just gotten a little keyboard for free and threw it on an echo pedal, all recorded live on a tinny microcassette player, which gave it that trebly timbre.

“It was our debut song of sorts, so at the end we made the song like a hip-hop video, and put a sketch of what would become a hook off a future track at the tail end of the first.

“Also firing off a Katrina Ford wail for good measure.”

Measured well – expect more from Baby Venom at the NPIP ‘blog when they finish recording some new songs early in September. Thanks to Daniel and David of Gentle Friendly renown for the tip.

On the B is Blancmange, a track from a mixtape I never got to send. EH…

Tags: baby venom, blancmange

6 Comments to Water Rib to Cry Cloud

1. 

   baby venom are really good. i hope you plan on doing something for them?
benjamin. on August 27th, 2008
2. 

   We’ll have to see… I think hope’s shared.

   Are you? Looking forward to the GF/Talibam tapes…
Kev Kharas on August 27th, 2008
3. 

   a hope shared is a hope halfed.

   not that i know of. i only heard them earlier via gentle friendly’s comments then saw this blog. brilliant though.

   aw thanks, not long to go now finally.
   your writing and taste is incredible by the way.
benjamin. on August 27th, 2008
4. 

   You should put out their tape, they’ve made one already. Dan and Dave are loopy for it.

   And thanks a lot, too… good to know someone’s out there, listening.
Kev Kharas on August 28th, 2008
5. 

   kev… do you have a last fm account so that mortals can spy on your listenings?
Anonymous on September 1st, 2008
6. 

   My last fm account details are known only by Obatala
Kev Kharas on September 1st, 2008

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