They’ve come a long way, Baebey. With Spring in the air, frisky young maidens the Medieval Baebes are back on the scene with a new album (‘Undrentide’) a new producer (John Cale – yes, as in The Velvet Underground), a new label (RCA Classics) and a new, souped up sound. With three years and much celebrity between them and their sparse, rough-around-the-edges first album, Salva Nos (1997), the Baebes offer up a collection of songs on the theme of springtime and reawakening. Under the influence of Cale, they have developed the instrumental side of their work considerably – adding drum machines, guitars and recorders to their signature sound of olde worlde girly singing. The result is a fascinating fusion of pseudo-medieval and twenty first century aesthetics. The girls’ singing capabilities have come forward in leaps and bounds since Salva Nos: Whereas the majority of their debut album and its 1998 follow up Worldes Blysse consisted of all twelve girls singing in unison, the vocal arrangements here are much more ambitious, and in fact executed admirably.
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