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Title: toe-tapping, crackingly tight poppy metal with a dash of weird
Review: I suppose if Julie Christmas and co are going to make stuff out of babies, they've got to source 'em from somewhere. Stolen Babies, fronted by rock chick/accordianado Dominique Lenore Persi, churn out some really fun, toe-tapping quasi-pop, quasi-goth, quasi-circus-music, quasi-industrial something-or-other.A bit like if Mark Ryden painted a Hello Kitty, it's a take on pop that's all cute, detailed and superbly crafted, with a dark edge of disturbed weirdness lurking just beneath the surface. There are a couple of "demented caberet" sections that seem a bit redundant - hasn't that been done to death already? But the band is crackingly tight, the tunes are direct and funky, and the production is ace.
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