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Swinging Jaw: FaltyDL, Pariah, Grave Babies

Chatter with FaltyDL, Pariah and Grave Babies over at Viceland.

MP3: FaltyDL - St. Marks



MP3: Pariah - Blackfriars



MP3: Grave Babies - Haunted

Tags: faltydl, grave babies, pariah

this grave, this grave

More from Seattle’s Grave Babies.

The future fighting through the fug. Silver rocket rising through the mud.

What about you? What do you like?

“I don’t even know. I’m beginning to think I’m pretty anti-social. I ignore a lot of phone calls and chances to do stuff. Like I said, I’ve started to record bands other than my own, but sometimes even that feels like a drain on the time I could be spending laying in my room doing nothing.”



MP3: Grave Babies - Haunted



MP3: Grave Babies - Gouge Your Eyes Out

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‘o crypt-oh crypt

Seattle’s Grave Babies stay loyal to their undead schtick - a glance at track titles from last year’s Deathface cassette (out through Skrot Up) reveals ‘Eating Babies’, ‘Demons’, ‘Graves’ and ‘Blood Forever’. Doom-eyed and downhearted, they’re not all bite, bite, bite. Their melancholy is as indebted to Eighties post-punk and industrial as it is to Misfits, all crudely trapped beneath familiar lo-fi gauze-glow. It’s a sound that makes being undead seem like a solid life choice and one you’d revel in, if blood were something you could revel in.

Find the whole album here, choice cuts (tearings?) below. We’ll endeavour in the mean time to strip new slabs from their disintegrating hides, some of which can be heard at the band’s MySpace page, linked above.



MP3: Grave Babies - Eating Babies



MP3: Grave Babies - Ache

Tags: grave babies, skrot up