Danny, Tabor, Elise and Neal are the Widow Babies, magnificent eccentrics whose first release was a concept record about Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt’s battle with a vampiric Abe Lincoln. Track titles include “Mike Watt Created the Universe With a Bass Solo” and “In Which Watt Wins His Hands Back and Basses a River Into Existence”. As concept records go, it’s not quite up there with The Point! by Nilsson (which he even made into a cartoon), but it’s certainly not half-arsed.
Musically, they take cues from the aforementioned Minutemen, punk heroes the Urinals, plus a little dash of Abe Vigoda’s tropical punk guitar sound, which makes sense because they’re all L.A. Smell brats. They recently sent me their first full-length record, Jetpacks (which is out now on Olfactory Records), and it’s been hounding my stereo since. Here’s my current favourite track.
The Widow Babies, “Moon Milk”
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September 15th, 2009 @ 04:43
