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November 13, 2008

New Amazing Baby Video - "Pump Your Brakes"

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Amazing Baby -- a band well documented for its connections to Wesleyan, and Brooklyn, and MGMT -- have amassed everything you need for blog buzz since forming in January, on the back of just one free EP. They have some songs, yes, but also they've made it onto some good lineups, and maybe most impressively, they've already amassed a consistent cadre of comment haters. (Sometimes that's a bad thing, and sometimes 'the quicker the backlash, the more people pay attention.') The stomping, glammy, psychedelic call to arms "Pump Your Breaks" is the Infinite Fucking Cross EP track of choice, and the video is a mix of NYC basketball courts, hippie torso wear, seances, visible auras, and Egyptian imagery because why not.

Pump:

Amazing Baby - "Pump Your Brakes" (MP3)

Download Amazing Baby's Infinite Fucking Cross EP for free at their site. The band's slated to work on a debut album soon.

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looove these dudes...

COME TO ATHENS!

is there a video in the works for supreme being?

Posted by: jason at 11/13/08 1:37 PM  | Reply
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hehehehee the intro sounds like "drinking in LA" by bran van 3000000!

Posted by: bob at 11/13/08 1:42 PM  | Reply
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good god that song is wretched. will people listen to ANYthing that is associated with Brooklyn?

if this was an ebay listing, it would be titled: "New 7" from a band -- BROOKLYN, BROOKLYN, BRKLYN, NYC, URBAN OUTFITTERS, SKINNY JEANS"

Posted by: holy crap on a cracker at 11/13/08 2:12 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, look, this is terrible. I saw them open for Bloc Party and they were alright live, but come on: the one dude want's to play hair-rock, lead for Black Sabbath and the rest are trendy hipsters?! Have I got that correct? It's just weird.

Posted by: kid_a at 11/13/08 2:48 PM  | Reply
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Yeah I'm not sold on it either... This song seems to drone on for the remaining two minutes. But I won't write off this band, I can see where they could write catchy stuff if it were a bit tighter.

Posted by: Sexual Robotics profile link at 11/13/08 3:09 PM  | Reply
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Weird. But I'd say it's crap more than anything else

Posted by: Stereo Pills profile link at 11/13/08 3:15 PM  | Reply
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Sonic equivalent to a shitty 90's music video. All that's missing is smashing stuff with a baseball bat, and random images of the desert.

Posted by: ug. at 11/13/08 3:19 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, I'll risk "'the quicker the backlash, the more people pay attention" etc. But this band is just bad bad bad bad. Saw them open for white denim and bloc party. Wow. Just so cliched and terrible.

Posted by: Anonymous at 11/13/08 3:24 PM  | Reply
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Videos like this make me miss Beavis and Butthead.

That said, that is the most impressive slam dunk I've seen since Ed Norton in American History X.

Posted by: Bob at 11/13/08 4:06 PM  | Reply
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mgmt's cousin haha!

Posted by: vig profile link at 11/14/08 6:58 AM  | Reply
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Britpop, anyone?

Posted by: tamrz at 11/17/08 1:55 PM  | Reply
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This is the greatest band I have heard in a long while. The video is a bright beginning to an impressive career. The music is tight, bright, and inspirational. To the nay-sayers, get a life and try it yourself some time.

Posted by: T. Alden Roan at 12/01/08 8:27 PM  | Reply
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