Brave Baby

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Our friends over at Hearts & Plugs are less than a year old and already making their presence known as an indie label. Their new signee Brave Baby is an excellent score from the burgeoning southern scene. This band is a great addition to your collection if you like emoting indie rock in the vein of Arcade Fire or The Rosebuds. ”Living in a Country”, the first single from their upcoming debut Forty Bells, gives a sense of urgency and consequence while still making you want to dance (maybe that part’s just me). I look forward to hearing more from this Charleston, SC group. The record is due out January 15th, 2013. - Slap the Bass

When: December 2012
Where: Hearts & Plugs

Living In A Country is the first single from South Carolina based band Brave Baby, and it is the first taste of music that will appear on their debut album Forty Bells, out on January 15th via Hearts & Plugs Records.

Combining a nice mix of indie and folk rock, Brave Baby puts together a nice debut in the form of Living In A Country. The vocals fit in really nicely with the soft riff behind the verses, and the chorus explodes with noise which really drives the track into another gear. Brilliant production allows for every single instrument to be heard properly, and what I love most is the brief quiet moments before the band kicks into the chorus again.

What we have here is a band confident in their ability to create something catchy and memorable, and that is exactly what Brave Baby has done here. It’s a great debut track and one that will certainly get everybody excited to hear Forty Bells…once the whole “end of the world” thing is over of course. Good job guys. - Elusive Little Comments

When: December 2012
Where: Hearts & Plugs

Living In A Country is the first single from South Carolina based band Brave Baby, and it is the first taste of music that will appear on their debut album Forty Bells, out on January 15th via Hearts & Plugs Records.

Combining a nice mix of indie and folk rock, Brave Baby puts together a nice debut in the form of Living In A Country. The vocals fit in really nicely with the soft riff behind the verses, and the chorus explodes with noise which really drives the track into another gear. Brilliant production allows for every single instrument to be heard properly, and what I love most is the brief quiet moments before the band kicks into the chorus again.

What we have here is a band confident in their ability to create something catchy and memorable, and that is exactly what Brave Baby has done here. It’s a great debut track and one that will certainly get everybody excited to hear Forty Bells…once the whole “end of the world” thing is over of course. Good job guys. - Elusive Little Comments

Charleston indie rockers Bave Baby have announced the Jan. 15 release of their debut album, Forty Bells via Hearts & Plugs. The balance of melody and mood present on first single “Living in a Country” (stream it below) evokes early-00s big-tent indie stalwarts like Modest Mouse and The Killers. It’s a capable backing for an album “center[ed] on the long-lost-but-never-forgotten feelings discovered in childhood and early encounters with love,” as Hearts & Plugs’ press release describes it. Fittingly, a sense of longing and mournful nostalgia seeps into “Living In A Country.” —Bryan C. Reed - Shuffle Magazine

“LIVING IN A COUNTRY” – BRAVE BABY

Charleston’s Brave Baby aims big here, drawing inspiration not only from the heroic/nostalgic sounds of Arcade Fire but from the granddaddies of earnest yet incisive rock’n'roll, U2. Front man Keon Masters does sing with an air of Win Butler about him; his vulnerable tenor has a rope-like strength to it, and a subtle intricacy, as he offers different aural qualities at his different registers.

“Living in a Country” is all yearning momentum and indelible chorus. You’ll hear that without even trying. Give a closer listen, though, and you’ll encounter any number of oddly satisfying details—the Star Trek-y synthesizer (first heard in the introduction), the late entry of the bass (0:29), the ghostly octave vocals (1:40), the deconstruction of the time signature during that asymmetrical interlude after the second verse (1:54), and maybe best of all, the burnished spaciousness of the sound in the chorus, which feels partly like some kind of wall-of-sound voodoo and yet partly organic and explainable. Only I can’t explain it; all I know is that the chorus’s urgent hookiness has probably as much to do with its sonic landscape as its melody.

Three of Brave Baby’s four members have been playing music together since 2008; the quartet coalesced in 2010. “Living in a Country” is the first single available from the band’s debut album, Forty Bells, due out in January on Hearts and Plugs Records. Thanks to the record label for the MP3. - Figertipsmusic.com

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