Artist: Blake Babies
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Sunburn
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Innocence and Experience
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Rosy Jack World
Year: 1991
Tracks: 5
While Blake Babies made respective engaging records in the late '80s and former '90s, they never stone-broke out of the collegial rock circles where they were adored. It wasn't until 1992 that their loss leader, Juliana Hatfield, began getting recognition as a songwriter in more mainstream publications, merely that was after the mathematical group was broken up. Over their four albums, Hatfield's songwriting and thin, girlish tattle improved drastically as the band's post-R.E.M. alternative pop grew more hefty, branching out into both punkier and folkier territories on each record book. By the time of their last full-length album, 1990's Tan, guitarist John Strohm was emerging as an impressive songwriter in his possess right. After a last EP in 1991, the band rent, with Hatfield emerging as an alternative whizz and Strohm and drummer Freda Love forming the acclaimed guitar pop band Antenna.
In 2000 the Blake Babies came out of a ten-year retirement to criminal record a new album, Deity Bless the Blake Babies. The album was released March 6, 2001, on Rounder Records. Drummer Freda Love conceived the rejoinder, talk the other deuce original members into a reunion. She was rewarded with having her first Blake Babies piece "Nix Ever Happens" be the first single. Older and better musicians, this version of the band sacrifices the charm of the amateur indie pop for a smarter, crafted sound that works as a natural advance of the stria. The side projects and solo careers shaped the individual members into inured veterans of the euphony industry, and their experiences give their new material a profoundness that their earlier work lacked. Spring of 2001 saw the band attain the road playing old haunts like Chapel Hill, NC's Cat's Cradle and novel versions of the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., and the Knitting Factory in New York City to receptive audiences. John Strohm called it the best the Blake Babies ever sounded.
