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The rumor has it that these Beautiful New Borns have emerged from the womb that is Deutschland, but the band is notoriously slippery about its origins, preferring instead to infer that they have arrived from the raucous land of the beyond, where trolls still roam and the Huns wield their battle axes. If in fact this is Krautrock, it's of a kind hitherto unheard, an enormous, roaring rock afterbirth—something frightening lurking in the garage. With the distortion turned up to "painful" and three chords hit with the force of a natural disaster, The Beautiful New Born Children have arrived screaming and covered with blood. This, the band's Domino debut, is alternately scary, impossibly loud, and gloriously rude. It is as pure a punk as one could possibly achieve amid this corporate co-opted reality—growling, barely discernable vocals buried beneath mounds of dirty fuzz, lots of profanity, unbridled fury, and a total disdain for convention. These are speedy little bullets of frenzy, quick but not painless. Each song on Hey People! clocks in at less than two minutes, except the climactic six-minute epic "Up And Down And Round And Round," which closes the album with volatile energy, the final explosion on an already battered and bombarded listener. With lines like "I'm feeling fine/Hey, I'm okay/And I don't really give a fuck about what you say," the New Borns are reading straight from the Punk-Ass Songbook, throwing themselves up on the soapbox of dissolution and defiant alienation. "Hectic Control" and "Paper Mill" are two of the albums tautest tracks, tiny nuggets that contain the compressed melodic energy of a thousand Strokes. For those unafraid to rock, The Beautiful New Born Children salute you.
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