The Black-Out

The Blackout is the third album from New York City's Speedball Baby. Fifteen brand new originals of honed-to-near-perfection psycho-no-wave-rockabilly. Here Speedball Baby is joined by James Chance, Mick Collins (Dirtbombs and half the In The Red catalog), Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) and Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore) to make this by far their finest effort to date. Like the Velvets, New York Dolls, Suicide and Contortions before them, Speedball Baby are truly the sound of New York City. Tales of pimps, players and hustlers, set to the background of jagged and fractured rhythms. Their music is dark and gritty. This music could have come from nowhere else.