Gigomaphone

Charles Baby is a singer/song-writer from Melbourne. I would really like to pigeon-hole him, but I don’t know what to call his style of music. Singer/song-writer’s a genre, right?

The lyrics seem a little bit self-deprecating, but it’s not clear if his songs which are mostly written in the first-person are of himself or someone else.

The world is an opponent is a  half-hour, 6-track EP that would work very well as a regular voice/guitar recording, but it has been embellished with drums, glockenspiel and backing-vocals amongst other things. While I think that they are unneccesary and the recording would work very well without it, it does add another level of interest to the music.  The sound is well-mixed and produced but it doesn’t in any way sound “manufactured”.

I don’t think there’s all that much more to say about Charles Baby other than that I hope that he tours/comes to Adelaide so I can see him live. And write about it here.

3.75/5