Review Summary: wtf
Stolen Babies show elements of consistency in Naught, only to throw them out the window. Premature summary: in faces, causing brutal yet playful splashes and bafflement. The genre? Yes. Think of them as Mr. Bungle meets Korn minus the nu-metal. Why?? Cause they’re like hmm yes this goes here, not really, but it’s funny and slaps. Gothic hardcore doom noise nonsense rock: the album. For real, it is that nonchalant, haphazard, and discordant: sewn together creating a bloody smile.
The album is a hellish, musical merry go round, that really does revolve swell. The closest sounding band depends on the song. At points the poppy meets jarring noise in a Diablo Swing Orchestra kind of way. The term avant-garde works for this piece, and while it’s weird and off putting (and off its medicinal pudding), they force-feed us actually swallowable music. The recording/production is great, it’s clear, and goes in the ears.
Accordion, creepy vocals, catchy songs, and harsh vocals. Mousefood sounds like a Haunted Mansion ride on many, multiple hallucinogenics. The bass guitar has a great tone for the jagged, jello-y sound in the album. For example, the next track after Mousefood sounds like a psychotic mouse chasing you with a steady, sickening thump-thump. I Woke Up, on the other hand, is straight horror movie energy. Why yes, it does get even creepier.
Attempting to critique this strangely appealing art disaster is folly. Surely no good to my reputation can come of it, yet the review stays. Naught laughs in the face of pretty melodies, and ordinary organization. It’s a good example of the disruption of expectations done right. Interpret that sentence as you will, just as the album will interpret you.
