My Review: Tina & The Hams - Wake the Babies

 Tina & The Hams - Wake the Babies

Melbourne at the time of Covid 19: arguably the strictest city with restrictions, when normally it is a welcoming and dynamic clearing, but, you know, the impact of pandemic has inevitably changed things even in that beautiful conurbation.

Three souls full of considerable feelings, with a skin tough and sour in a healthy way, debut with a vitriolic album, with psychedelic raids and an aptitude for making the path of lyrics full of personal experience compact, in order to give the whole thing the impression of being inside a rock full of brilliance and enchanting mysteries.

The game of joints of guitars, keyboards, bass and drums are remarkable, allowing the rhythm and melodies to establish a pact that unites everything and transports it into the intimate conviction of rampant pleasantness. These are chills of sweat and reflection, for forty-two minutes of sexual intercourses, a vibrant and stimulating state where what is heard comforts and inspires. 

Guitars like blades, vocals and choruses full of freshness, in which atoms of sadness cannot limit the disruptive propensity to make music an act of aggregation, since these ten compositions have the virtue of channeling people into the same space.

The rhythms are often spirals of frenzy able to attract and push bodies to become catapults (of all of them the prodigious Way stands out in this respect), but even when the rhythms and conditions of sound slow down we experience necessary tensions (Minou Granuleux, Hanging Rock, for instance), causing the whole to envelop us giving us what we need.

In the case of Still on You, we are in front of truly captivating ideas and attitudinal suggestions of our mind, because the almost intimate propensity for a rarefied sound grants intense and awe-filled breaths.

Waves from the Sea, in the opening part, takes us to the Scottish Man of Moon and then through post-punk infused with psychedelic cells that drag and seduce.

An album that listening after listening sows necessity, giving us seeds of gratitude because the songs are generous, elegant albeit in their disruptive intensity, and one becomes a dreamer able to see reality as a chance to kiss the well-being that seemed long gone, given the events I mentioned at the beginning.

And the most electrifying moment capable of contaminating the joy of our being is the intriguing Suicide Girls, which with its different branches and quality references descends into bed like good lightning, doing no damage but in a condition to ignite passion that becomes a pleasant addiction.

With Ice we find a cloud of sound with the bass pushing its fingers into our abdomen, with almost dreamy vocals that seem to suggest we are inside the lanes of our intimacy.

In conclusion: I highly recommend listening to this set of remarkable compositions since we need freshness, light and the courage to live..

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

20 September 2022

https://tinaandthehams.bandcamp.com/album/wake-the-babies

https://open.spotify.com/album/0MxXIdoZe1SOawP7QGetfa?si=VETOdm5rTJ-RNcaSfmiYhg