Just Covers by Baby Scream

Baby Scream has a new album of covers out entitled, predictably, Just Covers, and this time everybody’s fave DIY John Lennon definitely colours outside the lines. This is fun collection, with inspired reworkings of Cyndi Lauper, the Psychedelic Furs, 10cc, Culture Club and more! I’m singling out for a double A side the muted yet rollicking “Secret Agent Man” on one side with the tight pop-rocking Fastball track “Warm Fuzzy Feeling” on the other. PopRockRecord (U.K.)

It would be true to say that the music of Argentinian Power Pop trailblazer Juan Pablo Mazzolo and his Baby Scream project has been a regular feature on elobeatlesforever ever since their debut here on elobf back in January 2013 judging by (believe it not) the six (6) enthusiastic EP/album reviews written by Yours Truly KJS in the ensuing seven (7) years!
2020 sees Juan and Baby Scream venture into relatively new territory with a ten (10) track set of covers (as the album title suggests!) in their own inimitable style. There are some interesting choices of both songs and artistes here whether it be the atmospheric 10cc classic "I'm Not In Love", Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon", Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" or Sepultura's brutal "Roots Bloody Roots" which now a nice electronica tune replete with vocoder! I really like the way that seemingly unique, simple and complex original song arrangements of various genres have been deconstructed and reassembled into a very listenable and enjoyable album fit for a new decade in a shifting musical landscape. Undoubtedly this is most evident with what is my fave track, a wonderful reworking of Aaron Neville's 1966 soulful ballad "Tell It Like It Is" into what amounts to a wonderful Lennonesque anthem. "Just Covers" is a triumph and a job well done. Elobeatlesforever (U.K.)

Here Juan Pablo Mazzola covers his favorite songs (from his favorite bands I guess !!). Our Argentine friend play tracks from Culture Club, to Sepultura, and from Johnny Rivers to Psychedelic Furs !! He also covers songs by 10cc, Samantha 7, Fastball, Cyndi Lauper, Orville Stoeber, Aaron Neville. The sound of the songs is initially pop, but it also adds a lot of electronic elements as well as some loops, making the overall result extremely different from the rest of his releases. Gew Gaw Fanzine (Greece)

Tracklist

1.	I Wanna Be Famous (Samantha 7)	2:53

2.	I'm Not In Love (10cc)	3:09

3.	Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs)	3:42

4.	Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)	3:39

5.	Roots Bloody Roots (Sepultura)	2:32

6.	Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)	3:01

7.	Stay Forever, My Love (Orville Stoeber)	2:02

8.	Tell It Like It Is (Aaron Neville)	5:01

9.	Warm Fuzzy Feeling (Fastball)	2:00

10.	Time After Time (Cindy Lauper)	3:16

Credits

released January 12, 2020

Recorded by Nick Schinder at “My Robots Love Me Studio” (Oxford, U.K. 2015 - 2018) and Alex Goldstein at “Jaime Lew Studio” (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015 - 2018)
(Drums were recorded at "Estudio Orion", Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2016)
Mixed, produced and mastered by Nick Schinder at “My Robots Love Me Studio” (Oxford, U.K., 2018)

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