Schnipper’s Slept On
- story Matthew Schnipper
Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Girls’ “Hellhole Rat Race” 10-inch coupled with a thorough thinking about how surprisingly kick ass The Babies are. Download Girls’ “Solitude” and The Babies “Meet Me in the City” and read Schnipper’s thoughts after the jump.
The Babies, “Meet Me in the City” MP3
Besides having one of the greatest band names ever (why has anyone never thought of this before?) the side project of Cassie from Vivian Girls and Kevin from Woods (not the Traveling Wilburys or anything, but respectable) is a perfect dollop of garage pop: simple, sweet, raucous, overdriven, karaoke-able, vaguely screamy, encapsulating some archetypal “cool kids hanging out” image (meet me downtowwnnn!) and over before you get a chance to miss it. Or, as their MySpace puts it, “sounds like: road sodas.” Yeah let’s rent a car and drive to Sonic for some cherry lime rickeys before summer dies.
Download: The Babies, “Meet Me in the City” (via White Guys with Beards)
