Glaxo Babies

Glaxo Babies

Musical Group

Forfans of post-punk, experimental funk, no wave and late-1970s underground music.
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The Profile

An English post-punk group from Bristol presented in the review as an offshoot of The Pop Group; noted for instrumental, funk-tinged post-punk and dub-influenced pieces. Dan Catsis is named in the review as a founding member.

Associated acts mentioned in the review include Maximum Joy, Rip Rig & Panic, Pigbag and The Pop Group. The reviewed album Nine Month to the Disco (1980) is described as largely instrumental with funk, dub and No Wave-tinged moments.

The available review praises Nine Month to the Disco for its instrumental, funk-tinged post-punk and dub touches. The band is presented as an offshoot of The Pop Group with Dan Catsis named as a founding member. The album is described as challenging, atmospheric and not for everyone.

Notable Quotes

❝ The Glaxo Babies are one of the various groups (along with Maximum Joy, Rip Rig & Panic, Pigbag) spawned from a rib of the seminal Pop Group, a group born at the end of the seventies, authors of a funk/punk (punk only because no one knew how to play their instrument well) psychotic and bewildering sound that reaches its peak in the formidable debut album Y.