Baby Robots

Ten Year High

Bunkhaus Records

A probabilistic algorithm of sounds; Austin transplant (by way of Florida) Bobby Baker’s Baby Robots hint at everything from Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr to Spacemen 3 and Brother JT to the Tall Dwarves and the Butthole Surfers. Like watching Fantasia to Spacemen 3, their psychedelic potential (epitomized by their adroit cover of Pink Floyd’s "Astronomy Domine") is obvious. The songs on Ten Year High ("a collection of unreleased recordings and experimentaions from the Florida years, plus two brand new Austin ones") have a certain elastic quality to them - the notes slide and bend in and out of tune, like that point during an acid trip when your mind dives overover the deep-end and everything moves at a different speed and objects come into view from alternate perspectives. It’s enough to bring a tear of pride to the third eyes of at least two historic Austinites of the psychedelic persuasion : Roky Erikson and Gibby Haynes. But be forwarned; occasionally, Ten Year High elicits a random scream of "my mind is melting" - but it’s only the music, so just sit back, and enjoy the trip. It’s only right and natural.
-Don Simpson