Baby Be My Spiderman
Timid Kooky
| Formats | Tracks | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12" Vinyl EP | 5 tracks | £25.00 | |
| Download EP (FLAC) | 5 tracks | £4.95 | |
| Download EP (MP3) | 5 tracks | £4.95 | |
| Download EP () | 5 tracks | £4.95 | |
| Download individual tracks | From £0.99 | ||
Description
Timid Kooky - Baby Be My Spiderman
Baby Be My Spiderman 12" Vinyl EP will be released on September 24, pre-order is available now.
Part of the New Wave of Lithuanian Rock currently bubbling up from the Baltic states, Timid Kooky are all about cartoonish celebration of the mundane. As such, the Lithuanian trio have absorbed alternative and progressive rock, black metal, noise, and funk, to create a curiously addictive new sound—often little more than chants laid over menacing, hypnotic riffs, their songs are as fascinating as they are visceral.
Their new EP Baby Be My Spiderman, recorded in October 2020 at Ymir Audio in Vilnius, produced, mixed and mastered by Snorre Bergerud, is a ripping journey through desert rock, progressive metal, classic rock, punk and technical hardcore, the band cite Queens of The Stone Age and Primus as key musical influences, and their style also contains echoes of Beastie Boys’ wackiness and the post-hardcore sonic assault of Rollins Band.
Lyrically, Baby Be My Spiderman is a concept record about ego destruction, centred around an overconfident, macho hyper-masculine character who takes everything too seriously, cares too much about what others think of him, and rides a bike just to look cool. “Eventually the feeling takes over him and he goes on an inner self-realisation journey while riding,” says Džiugas. “Every song is a phase he’s going through during the journey. In the end he finds himself, his inner peace—he is no longer driven by ego, he is free from himself.”
It’s a theme the band hold close to their heart, with Timid Kooky meaning “total freedom to be myself, without any boundaries” to Džiugas, “the anxiety of being in the doctor’s waiting room on the wrong day” to Tomas, and “a place of musical anarchy” for Dovydas, where they can come “face to face with our anxieties and embrace them, instead of pushing them to the deepest corner of our subconscious.”
Part of the New Wave of Lithuanian Rock currently bubbling up from the Baltic states, Timid Kooky are all about cartoonish celebration of the mundane. As such, the Lithuanian trio have absorbed alternative and progressive rock, black metal, noise, and funk, to create a curiously addictive new sound—often little more than chants laid over menacing, hypnotic riffs, their songs are as fascinating as they are visceral.
Their new EP Baby Be My Spiderman, recorded in October 2020 at Ymir Audio in Vilnius, produced, mixed and mastered by Snorre Bergerud, is a ripping journey through desert rock, progressive metal, classic rock, punk and technical hardcore, the band cite Queens of The Stone Age and Primus as key musical influences, and their style also contains echoes of Beastie Boys’ wackiness and the post-hardcore sonic assault of Rollins Band.
Lyrically, Baby Be My Spiderman is a concept record about ego destruction, centred around an overconfident, macho hyper-masculine character who takes everything too seriously, cares too much about what others think of him, and rides a bike just to look cool. “Eventually the feeling takes over him and he goes on an inner self-realisation journey while riding,” says Džiugas. “Every song is a phase he’s going through during the journey. In the end he finds himself, his inner peace—he is no longer driven by ego, he is free from himself.”
It’s a theme the band hold close to their heart, with Timid Kooky meaning “total freedom to be myself, without any boundaries” to Džiugas, “the anxiety of being in the doctor’s waiting room on the wrong day” to Tomas, and “a place of musical anarchy” for Dovydas, where they can come “face to face with our anxieties and embrace them, instead of pushing them to the deepest corner of our subconscious.”