"So where are you from? What about your parents / Skin like that don’t come from Inguhlund / That cruel chorus - Oswald’s, Enoch’s / National Front’s back from the dress-up box"
The progressive politico post punkery and two way mirror of "Inguhlund", by Oxford’s Baby Maker, stirs you feet and mind in equal parts, something we are lacking these days. This glorious diatribal commentary on spiritual / national isolation and good ole racism is no more relevant today and sadly is always potently relevant in some way. At least in Trump's America we are in a perilous moral place and especially over the last decade (or so) have devolved, have lost our fucking way. I am loving Baby Maker's funk punk / artful rock aesthetic as the rhythms feel plucky and jagged, at times the notes colliding and at other times confiding in each other as the bass and drums dance forges forward into the fray all as a collective musical bed for BM to jump up and down in. His acerbic vocal ruminations punch at you but feel kick back too in some way, vibing in a purposeful derisive way. I do feel a mash up of things attitudinally overall like maybe (go with me on this) a collision of Brooklyn based Land of the Loops or the funkiest Talking Heads or Gorillaz or Dead Kennedys at their surf funk punk finest ("Soup is Good Food").
Is this protest music, maybe, is this existential alt pop, oh yeah, is this genre agnostic, probably.
-Robb Donker Curtius
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
Bomb Squad drums, baggy bass & glitchy guitar stabs underpin a timely two-fingered salute to the flag shaggers of the titular "Inguhlund". This track was borne out of the exasperation felt staring down a succesion of improvised flagpoles on the A34 in the sweltering heat last August.
Given the self-perpetuating and accelerated nature of modern societal creep, it was hardly surprising yet still absurd to have my own words thrown back at me practically verbatim a little over a month later in the dingy confines of a Reading pub-cum-music venue.
A conversation drummed up by a stranger swiftly turned hostile, revealing itself to be little more than an inquisition into determining my supposedly dubious origins. Deflation and resentment followed. I then dug up the forgotten demo for this tune and decided to purge that sour taste.
Bomb Squad drums, baggy bass & glitchy guitar stabs underpin a timely two-fingered salute to the flag shaggers of the titular "Inguhlund". This track was borne out of the exasperation felt staring down a succesion of improvised flagpoles on the A34 in the sweltering heat last August.
Given the self-perpetuating and accelerated nature of modern societal creep, it was hardly surprising yet still absurd to have my own words thrown back at me practically verbatim a little over a month later in the dingy confines of a Reading pub-cum-music venue.
A conversation drummed up by a stranger swiftly turned hostile, revealing itself to be little more than an inquisition into determining my supposedly dubious origins. Deflation and resentment followed. I then dug up the forgotten demo for this tune and decided to purge that sour taste.
LYRICS
So where are you from? What about your parents?
Skin like that don’t come from Inguhlund.
That cruel chorus - Oswald’s, Enoch’s.
National Front’s back from the dress-up box.
I wish you wouldn’t play that song.
I wish you’d quit dancing along.
So where are you from? I meant “fee fi fo fum,
I can smell the blood of an immigrant”.
Kier’s cold chorus - watered down some.
Having failed to try to squash Robinson
I wish you wouldn’t play that song.
I wish you’d quit dancing along.
Were you born in this country? Were you?
Yes - down the road, past the school in the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
So where are you from? I meant your background
Why do I ask? Was just wondering.
Didn’t mean anything by what I said.
Wouldn’t hurt a blue bottle caked in excrement.
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvR9-D2VlQ
https://baby-maker.bandcamp.com/track/inguhlund
https://www.instagram.com/baby__maker__/
Brought kicking and screaming into this world, Oxford’s Baby Maker cherry-picks and prods at the carcass of influence. His designer dog pop slop is the hard-won result of a painstaking process to reconstitute remnants of funk, new wave, and playful observational lyricism.
Set to play Truck Festival this summer & have recently appeared alongside: Haal, Frank Lloyd Wleft, O., Gemma Rogers, Welly, Doops
"Inguhlund" by Baby Maker is described as a "baggy rebuttal to bigotry" and is characterized by the band as a direct commentary on the current state of the UK.
That cruel chorus - Oswald’s, Enoch’s.
National Front’s back from the dress-up box.
I wish you wouldn’t play that song.
I wish you’d quit dancing along.
So where are you from? I meant “fee fi fo fum,
I can smell the blood of an immigrant”.
Kier’s cold chorus - watered down some.
Having failed to try to squash Robinson
I wish you wouldn’t play that song.
I wish you’d quit dancing along.
Were you born in this country? Were you?
Yes - down the road, past the school in the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
So where are you from? I meant your background
Why do I ask? Was just wondering.
Didn’t mean anything by what I said.
Wouldn’t hurt a blue bottle caked in excrement.
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvR9-D2VlQ
https://baby-maker.bandcamp.com/track/inguhlund
https://www.instagram.com/baby__maker__/
Brought kicking and screaming into this world, Oxford’s Baby Maker cherry-picks and prods at the carcass of influence. His designer dog pop slop is the hard-won result of a painstaking process to reconstitute remnants of funk, new wave, and playful observational lyricism.
Set to play Truck Festival this summer & have recently appeared alongside: Haal, Frank Lloyd Wleft, O., Gemma Rogers, Welly, Doops
"Inguhlund" by Baby Maker is described as a "baggy rebuttal to bigotry" and is characterized by the band as a direct commentary on the current state of the UK.
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