great song with a terrific bassline, Baby Strange is the title of a track from T-Rex’s 1972 album The Slider, and it’s now also the name of a three-piece from Glasgow who don’t sound Bolan-esque at all. They’re much more in the vein of those bands who have tended to peddle the idea that they are in touch with rock’s dark, druggy side.
They’re punk with a dash of grunge and their songs veer between drones and dirges. They wear their art on their sleeve, with their ideas and their worldview made pretty plain. And so just in case you were wondering where they were coming from, their last single was called Pure Evil and they’ve got another called Mess. Closer inspection reveals their dark vision is a little unfocused. Pure Evil finds the singer complaining that he is “tired of my generation” and comes with a video featuring E’d-up acid casualties raving circa 1990 that suggests they’re having a go at vacant pleasure-seekers and calling for a new revolution to counter this era’s apolitical hedonists. When asked about the song, the singer does indeed admit, “I’m just not very happy with the way things are around me”, and yet he says of the video, “We’re all huge fans of electronic music and we love everything that comes with it.”
The Fat Angel Sings 