Devastating. Few other words could fully capture the intensity and impact of the third Made Out of Babies album, The Ruiner. Here, the quartet hits harder than ever, but also with a stupefying creative subtlety and decisive finality. Those who'd seen and/or heard Made Out of Babies over the course of the past four years and two albums would certainly attest to the band's longstanding intimidating grunt and snarl. But, The Ruiner is incontrovertibly MOoB's most inspired and complex album to date. While it r...   [ read more ]

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Recorded with legendary -- uh -- recorder Steve Albini in Chicago, this, the second full-length from Brooklyn's Made Out of Babies, is a fine record, but may not quite be the step forward one would have hoped for after the band's excellent debut, Trophy. That said, Coward is still one hell of a record. If one needs proof that the bandmembers have yet to let their critical success and status in the underground get to them, all one needs is to start playing the disc. Opening with the frantic Silverback, Made...   [ read more ]

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