With opener ‘Spill!’ we immediately get kicked right in the stomach with some good fast bashing and you could almost actually taste the spiciness of this quartet. The following song has a real nice funky feeling, the keyboards add a shivering vibe and an accordion gives it the little extra freaky twist. There are amazing many sounds to listen to, without it becoming a real chaos; it all sounds really catchy. When we take a look in the booklet we see a huge lists of varied instruments such as a harp, baby sitar, toy piano, tuba, trumpet and this goes on for a while. Just when you think to know a bit what to expect a trippy goa/psytrance beat opens another killer song.

 

One could actually question whether this is to be called experimental because Mike Patton is such an obvious inspiration for Stolen Babies. The clean vocals of Dominique Persi have the same up building tension as that of Patton and it’s amazing how nasty screams she can produce; sometimes you just totally forget it’s a woman doing these crazy things. Although there is a big similarity with Patton I can’t be anything else than extremely positive about this talented woman.

 

Their artwork and stage outfits match perfectly wit their music, because they are at least as insane and freaky. Dressed up like dolls, bleached faces, enormous fake guns…to witness this live must be a real spectacle. Overall their appearance and artwork really reminded me of the Beetlejuice cartoon, their music would make the perfect soundtrack.

 

This CD will keep your attention for the entire playing time, because of all those different kind of freaky elements which are worked out just superb. Because of this we will take for granted that it looks a lot like the things Mike Patton does and did before.