Crawl Babies are a three piece band out of New York who are pitched as a band of post shoegazers stuck in the big city. The truth is Crawl Babies are more like a depressed Rolling Stones/Velvet Underground combo lost in some sort of post 60's haze that has yet to wear off. Their album Tangles is a smoky trip though the underside of Brooklyn that's scant on details but filled with near depressing darkness. In other words...this is quite a good record.
Utilizing a minimal approach and a barely produced style, Crawl Babies sound like they just, err, crawled out of bed recorded this album and then crawled back into bed. It's lo-fi, hung-over, and hinges on the fact that the band could suffer from a breakdown at any moment. Tangles is raw and slightly disastrous in just about every way but it's this untamed fragility that makes it so good. This is a band that sounds like it's on its last leg and about to tear itself apart but somehow for the love of music managed to piece Tangles together. Of course they're not really like that, but the energy that they bring to this record is so coarse and rough that you can't help but think those thoughts.
Crawl Babies are one heck of a band that just doesn’t sound like they've had very many good days. Tangles as a result, is a tangled web of depression, fragile emotions, and music that sounds as if it's ready to destroy itself. How can you not like something like that...especially in this day and age?
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