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Years active
  
2008–present

Record label
  
Shangri-La Music

Website
  
theamazingbaby.com/wp/

Albums
  
Rewild

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Labels
  
Shangri-La Music, Cooperative Music

Associated acts
  
Diamond Nights, Heavy Hands, The Icarus Line, Ink & Dagger, Lilys, Lions & Tigers, Mice Parade, Stylofone, Swirlies

Past members
  
Matt Abeysekera Ryan Rapsys Leah Cary Jane Herships Rob Laakso

Origin
  
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States (2008)

Members
  
Don Devore, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

Genres
  
Psychedelic rock, Indie rock

Similar
  
Will Berman, Ink & Dagger, Lilys, The Icarus Line, Boy Crisis

Profiles

Amazing Baby was an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York in 2008. The band began as an after-work collaboration between Will Roan, Will Berman and Simon O'Connor, who had known one another from the Brooklyn music scene, and who were working at the same ringtone company.

Contents

The band's debut album Rewild was released in June, 2009.

O'Connor, Berman, and Roan wrote new material for their forthcoming album in 2010, tentatively titled "Ice Water", and are currently recording with the band and producer/engineer Emery Dobyns.

Critical reception

Before Roan, Berman and O'Connor had formed a true band, they and some of the friends who had performed on their self-produced songs were being called a "hippie cliché" by such journals as NME. The band's debut LP Rewild received a varied response from critics, and has failed to chart. They have been criticized for being known more for their sense of fashion and connections to popular bands than for their musical talent, The Spin reviewer wrote, "Channeling glam, metal, punk, power pop, and experimental noise, Rewild is like a tour through a psychedelic fantasyland, featuring visions, hallucinations, and glimpses of death. Roan coaxes with an almost deliriously euphoric art-rock swagger (see reggae jam "Roverfrenz" and infectious chant-along "Smoke Bros"), while O'Connor infuses every track with hedonistic energy. Amazing Baby are desperate to dazzle." Rolling Stone was ambivalent. Kevin O'Donnell, in the magazine's Rock & Roll Daily, called Rewild, "stunning," while reviewer Christian Hoard wrote, "On their debut, the quintet spread the arty Cheez Whiz like MGMT and Yeasayer while bringing a stronger Sixties-pop influence, specifically with swirling keyboards with melodies that recall Love and the Dave Clark Five. "Roverfrenz," an airy synth fantasia with Animal Collective-ish percussion, gets by on neato textures instead of sharp tunes. In general, Rewild could use a little more of the latter, but who has time for that when you're knee-deep in giant guitars and weird ambient vocalizations?"

Albums

  • Rewild (2009)
  • Ice Water (forthcoming, 2012)
  • EPs

  • Infinite Fucking Cross (2008) (digital only)
  • Singles

  • "Pump yr Brakes" (2008)
  • "Bayonets" (2009)
  • "Headdress" (2009)
  • "Supreme Being" (2009)
  • Songs

    Pump Yr BrakesRewild · 2009
    HeaddressRewild · 2009
    Smoke BrosRewild · 2009

    References

    Amazing Baby Wikipedia