Glaxo Babies on DeBaser: reviews, albums, and post‑punk detours

Glaxo Babies

Musical Group

Forfans of post‑punk, the pop group followers, bristol scene explorers, and listeners into bass‑heavy, experimental grooves.
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The Profile

English post‑punk band from Bristol linked to The Pop Group, noted for the bass‑driven, largely instrumental Nine Months to the Disco (1980) and early single This Is Your Life.

The group shares ties with The Pop Group; bassist Dan Catsis is cited as a founding member. Their 1980 release Nine Months to the Disco blends funk, dub, and No Wave elements and is predominantly instrumental.

One review digs into Glaxo Babies’ 1980 LP Nine Months to the Disco, praising its bass-heavy, instrumental post‑punk with dub, funk and No Wave edges. It highlights the Bristol outfit’s ties to The Pop Group via bassist Dan Catsis and applauds the album’s mood shifts and murky atmospheres. Overall tone: enthusiastic and approving.

Notable Quotes

❝ In short, the Glaxo Babies play with the listener’s perceptions, displacing with sudden mood changes that only share a primitive and rough soul, they tend to create dense and immobile clouds of smoke only to tear them apart with sudden and monolithic funk blocks (namely Maximum Sexual Joy, Free Dem Cells, Conscience, which for some reason bring to mind the Theoretical Girls, the Contortions, and a few other No Wave groans) creating a work not for everyone, where only the last track, Shake The Foundation, settles on classic canons, appearing quite out of place.