Babysitter
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| Sep 2015
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Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2015-09-02
Reviewed 2015-09-02
Beautiful, noisy, fuzzy, weird rock from Victoria, Canada. Think Pavement/The Fall, plus modern garage faves (The Intelligence, Oh Sees, mmany more). And free jazz (there's sax, natch). And grunge. You can see some of the ragged weirdness of The Prefab Messiahs here... overall, it's just great. No FCCs detected.
1. (3:15) ***** Bleep, then fuzzy garage, scruffy neck-veined vox-- crazy hooks, crazy drive. YES.
2. (2:19) **** Cool krauty groove, then super-cool-in-the-saddle vocals, weird political talk-rambling about the NSA and what else.
3. (4:28) ****** 'HE'S A HIPPIE IN THE CITY'. Like a meandering demented version of Gimme Shelter. A couple shambling drum beats for 20 seconds, then it kicks in-- female bg singer. just give it a shot, funny and beautiful and weird.
4. (4:11) **** FREE JAZZish -- unstructured instrumental, noisy and rocking, but it's free.
5. (2:08) **** "Candy Baby"-- kinda doorsish. Noisy and muddy mix, growling low vox.
6. (1:51) ****** Eyes-bulging+sandpaper-down-throat vocals, plus major key guitar thrashing-- a really sweet and noisy and bizarre and beautiful track.
7. (2:43) **** Fem vocals, hazy and half-trying. Noisy warpo guitars waft around. Wonderful.
8. (3:37) **** loud, breaking glasses, cries and screams. a bar band in hell.
9. (2:55) ****** Starts with a radio playing "fly like an eagle", then it breaks, and it's ... meowing? Weird mewling goes on forever, as the radio fully dies. Great avant track.
10. (5:40) **** Another FREE JAZZish instrumental, this one longer and also rocking.
11. (2:50) **** Byrdsish, to an extent. Shaggy folky rocky
1. (3:15) ***** Bleep, then fuzzy garage, scruffy neck-veined vox-- crazy hooks, crazy drive. YES.
2. (2:19) **** Cool krauty groove, then super-cool-in-the-saddle vocals, weird political talk-rambling about the NSA and what else.
3. (4:28) ****** 'HE'S A HIPPIE IN THE CITY'. Like a meandering demented version of Gimme Shelter. A couple shambling drum beats for 20 seconds, then it kicks in-- female bg singer. just give it a shot, funny and beautiful and weird.
4. (4:11) **** FREE JAZZish -- unstructured instrumental, noisy and rocking, but it's free.
5. (2:08) **** "Candy Baby"-- kinda doorsish. Noisy and muddy mix, growling low vox.
6. (1:51) ****** Eyes-bulging+sandpaper-down-throat vocals, plus major key guitar thrashing-- a really sweet and noisy and bizarre and beautiful track.
7. (2:43) **** Fem vocals, hazy and half-trying. Noisy warpo guitars waft around. Wonderful.
8. (3:37) **** loud, breaking glasses, cries and screams. a bar band in hell.
9. (2:55) ****** Starts with a radio playing "fly like an eagle", then it breaks, and it's ... meowing? Weird mewling goes on forever, as the radio fully dies. Great avant track.
10. (5:40) **** Another FREE JAZZish instrumental, this one longer and also rocking.
11. (2:50) **** Byrdsish, to an extent. Shaggy folky rocky
Recent airplay
Envy, Hard Times, Neighbours Play The Worst Music
Everything — Aug 16, 2025
Neighbours Play The Worst Music
Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Oct 31, 2015) — Sep 11, 2021
Hippy In The City
Music Casserole (rebroadcast from Sep 5, 2015) — Jul 24, 2021
Candy
Music Casserole — Nov 07, 2015
Neighbours Play The Worst Music
Music Casserole — Oct 31, 2015
Silky Cloud
radio seven — Oct 29, 2015
Charting
2015-09-04 — 2015-11-06
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Nov 1 | 2 |
| Oct 25 | 2 |
| Oct 18 | 3 |
| Oct 11 | 3 |
| Oct 4 | 1 |
| Sep 27 | 1 |
| Sep 20 | 1 |
| Sep 13 | 4 |
Track listing
| 1. | Exploding Youth | ||
| 2. | Hard Times | ||
| 3. | Hippy In The City | ||
| 4. | Neighbours Play The Worst Music | ||
| 5. | Candy | ||
| 6. | Both Sides How | ||
| 7. | Silky Cloud | ||
| 8. | Maintaining My Direction | ||
| 9. | Cry Like An Eagle | ||
| 10. | Solosohi (Psychedelic Shit) | ||
| 11. | Envy |