Amazing Baby: the new MGMT?
- Oct 10, 2008
Here in NYC, us music kids have been desperately and wildly looking to find the new MGMT. MGMT's gotten too popular to feel like Brooklyn brethren any more. Sure, there's a whole slew of Brooklyn bands that are, as Paris Hilton would say, "so hot right now" such as: Yeasayer, Chairlift, Boy Crisis etc... Hell, they all share rotating spots on eachothers' MySpace Top Friends lists. But the one that seems the hottest in newbie talent, sexy star quality and MGMT-likeness - is Amazing Baby.
Why Amazing Baby = The New MGMT
1) They shared the same drummer for a while. (they eventually lost Will to MGMT)
2) They've got the same sort of annoying 'ungoogleable name' like MGMT. You look up website www.amazingbaby.com and you get information about baby and mother water aerobics. Their 'official' website www.theamazingbaby.com is down. It's like they took too many mushrooms, spewed out the name "Amazing Baby" to their model girlfriends at 4 am one night, and since then, really don't seem to care if it stays or goes.
3) They first caught everyone's attention with a scantily clad photo shoot involving body paint and a model or two that they posted to their MySpace. Considering they've only been around 9 months, it definitely didn't add to their credibility- but the nudity got them notice. (They've since erased the picts from their website. We're guessing their moms finally got the link).
4) They live up to the true hippie boho Brooklyn commune vibe - with a constantly oscillating crew of bandmates. In Amazing Baby, there's around 5 standard band members; MGMT's got two permanent members. And then they both add and drop bassists and guitarists like widgets on iPhones.
5) Onstage, they rock like it's 1974 and they're surrounded by mud-caked hippies. When they recently opened here in NY for Bloc Party (in a special Imeem-hosted concert), they shell-shocked the crowd with furious riffs and pedal-heavy psychedelic rock.
They sound a bit like a less spastic Mars Volta, merged with the riffing routines of Kings of Leon and the oozing psychedelic beats of MGMT. ...Their pedal-heavy, electric guitar-screaming tracks like "Headdress" and "Pump Your Breaks" contrasts with tracks like "Supreme Being," that has an 80s-esque Bowie drama with flute-like background synths...
So what if they only have 8 songs? They are touring the UK with MGMT so you guys over there can figure it out for yourself in the near future.
www.myspace.com/theamazingbaby
