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An unexpected pleasure!

07/15/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Speedball Baby have been around about eight years now and have been responsible for some of the best NY style decontructed roots rock come no wave these ears have ever heard. Their last album, Uptight!, was a masterpiece, but since it's release in 2000 I hadn't heard much from them. So imagine my surprise when I saw this new album in [the record store]. What really blows me away is the fact that this is their finest work to date. Ramshacle rock n' roll with an artistic bent. Features cameos by Mick Collins, James Chance and Jon Spencer. If you dig Suicide, Tom Waits and the Blues Explosion this is an absolute must!"

Their best one yet

Kate Hockney | New York, NY | 06/26/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a must have. Just buy it. 'The Blackout' is the perfect record to get if you've never heard them before or even if you have all the others -- it just blows away anything else out there. The title track and another one called 'Hanky Joe Digger' rock so hard that my neighbors came upstairs to see if we were ok. It sounds like the recording studio is falling apart around them. On 'Bee in Flight', Ron Ward sounds like Alan Vega in all his demented glory. 'Cash Cow' shows that genius producer/guitarist Matt Verta-Ray and guest vocalist Mick Collins have the kind of musical chops you just don't expect to find in rock & roll. And '9.11' just about sums up how me and all our friends felt when we stood there and watched those two planes crash into the twin towers last year. Speedball Baby holds fast as one of the best and most consistently unique New York bands of the past decade."