Deadbabes -
The Drug
[2003]

The drug from The Cure

Deadbabes showed themselves worth in summer 2003. Then young and conceptually gloomy creatures played here and there somewhere around Helsinki. They even honoured to perform in Semifinal at Tuska night-party. In September debut EP by Deadbabes was released. The name of it was conceptually gloomy as well - "The Drug".

Why "The Drug"? Ah, just because it's a name of one of four songs recorded on the EP. Or… just because. The cover artwork should be really esteemed. Black-dark-green coloured, with clumsy "The Drug" and confident "Deadbabes", the cover promises us that this music should squeeze our mind and make us depressed and miserable - in the most possible best meanings of these words. So, the cover is right.

Four songs were chosen to promote the band: "The Drug", "Lullaby", "My Favourite Passion" and "Come To Me". They have one style and one mood - only electro-gothic melancholic inconsolable love. In the middle of the third song you finally realize when and where you heard Deadbabes before… The Cure! Well, obviously it's a compliment. Truism - everything new is something well-foggoten - worked out this time again. And borrowed style doesn't mean that music is bad and the band isn't talented. Not at all!

The only one a bit boring song is "My Favourite Passion". It's one of the examples when back-vocal isn't something necessary, really. But for the rest of the songs authors - drummer Jaani Peuhu and vocalist Lasse Erjamo - deserve only positive comments. Stylish sorrow-electronic music successfully emphasizes quite good lyrics. Because of robertsmith's singing manner it's possible to hear every one word, and it's an undoubted advantage of the songs. The most beautiful song is… let's say "Lullaby", it has perfectly irreparable mood.

Music, done by Deadbabes, is gonna be a good cure (drug?..) for depressive souls. And this dark-pop decadence is a real boon of Deadbabes, 'cos nowadays in Finalnd no-one else play music like this. That's why the band has a real chance to find its place under the sun. But everything depends on their first long-play, which should be released in August-September 2004.

Melamory