MAC BLACKOUT-

'The Rabid Babies'

CD

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Well well well...it appears the vaults have been pillaged once again. Here it is the follow up to the ‘S/T’ LP that I released earlier this year from the one and only MAC BLACKOUT. The debut ‘S/T’ was an LP only releases. This time all the vinyl fiends get left in the dust for this CD only release with completely different tracks than on the LP. ‘The Rabid Babies’ compiles 15 new and unreleased tracks from MAC BLACKOUT recorded between 2006 and the present. MAC BLACKOUT continues to shine on ‘The Rabid Babies’, divulging even more facets of his rather complex musical psyche as heard through these 15 intricately written tunes. Varying in conception and style from song to song, one gets the sense that these songs harbor even more personal meaning to MAC, himself, above and beyond the enjoyment that we, as the listener, get out of them. From the very dark and demented ‘I’m Gonna Murder My Love, My Baby’ to the clever, witty word play of ‘I Scream Colors’ to the care free, lackadaisical, ode to youth of ‘Johny Spit’; ‘The Rabid Babies’ portrays MAC BLAC KOUT as an artist with more depth and dynamic that just another hum drum loner with a Tascam.

Reference points? Kraftwerk, Devo, Screamers, Big Black, Chrome. But they should only be viewed as reference points because MAC BLACKOUT doesn’t really sound like any of them. Thankfully you can’t really pigeonhole MAC BLACKOUT as another one dimensional dark and depressed bedroom renaissance man. Ya a lot of his songs do definitely have a very bleak, pessimistic view of the world. But there are other songs on ‘The Rabid Babies’ that are more care free, silly and almost playful. Normally, I’d be pretty quick to dismiss songs like that as cheeky, emotional douche-baggery, but they’re written and presented in a way that you can’t help but love ‘em. Just take the whistling chorus in ‘Fifteen Minutes Of Famous Screams’ or the off kilter Xylophone tinkering in ‘Pocket For Everything'. At the surface and on their own, they’d probably sound really corny. But in the context of these two songs, they really do add to the unique appeal of each tune and throw a nice curve ball into the standard synth, punk, wierdo song paradigm. And it’s that ‘what you hear is what you get’ aesthetic that really resonates with the listener and makes MAC BLACKOUT seem more humane amongst all the mechanical, instruments he uses to create these masterpieces. Ya, I’m sure MAC does go through his fair share of emotional hard times where he hones his mood into intense, darkwave expressions-of-the-moment as heard on numerous songs on the record. But unlike many other artists he also documents some of his more elated, joyous times in songs like ‘Molten Emissions’ and ‘Darlin’ Don’t You See’. After all life isn’t a war zone every day and he’s not afraid to let you in on his twisted take on happiness.

For Fans of: Electric Eels, Big Black, Blank Dogs, Jay Reatard, Chrome, DC Snipers, Factums, Frustration, Screamers, Kraftwerk, Daily Void, Haunted George, Devo, Functional Blackouts and Dead Hookers.

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