Blake Babies - Innocence And Experience '1993

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Wipe It Up
02. Rain
03. Boiled Potato
04. Lament
05. Cesspool
06. You Don't Give Up
07. Star
08. Sanctify
09. Out There
10. Girl In A Box
11. I'm Not Your Mother
12. Temptation Eyes
13. Downtime
14. Over And Over (Live)

Perched right on the edge of genuine stardom thanks to the critical adoration of
1990's Sunburn and the general sea change heralded by the commercial success of
Nirvana and other alt rockers, the Blake Babies chose instead to break up. It
was nothing personal; John P. Strohm and Freda Boner were homesick for Indiana
and Juliana Hatfield didn't want to leave Boston. That sort of casualness
typified the band throughout their brief existence, and indeed, it's a huge part
of their charm. Coyly taking their name from the most famous book of poetry by
their name's inspiration, Innocence and Experience is a similarly off-the-cuff
collection. Less a full-career overview than a collection of rarities, favorite
tracks, and demos, the 14-track collection hits all of the group's releases,
paying particular attention to Sunburn and its immediate predecessor, 1989's
Earwig. It has some faults as a retrospective, but it does hit almost all of the
high points (Earwig's "Take Your Head off My Shoulder" and Sunburn's "Look Away"
are the most egregious omissions) and the demos are interestingly different from
the more familiar versions. Also of interest to Hatfield fans is the inclusion
of "Boiled Potato," the rarity that Hatfield would rework as the anorexia
metaphor "Feed Me" on her 1992 EP I See You.

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