’ MY TWO MINDS ARE EIGHT MILES HIGH ’ SO SINGS THE OBTUSE STUART SITAR IN HIS PEON TO PSYLICIBIN IN ’ SPIDERS IN THE BATHROOM ’ AND HE CAN’T BE FAR WRONG. FROM THE STREETS OF CENTRAL LONDON THE BABYSITARS PRESENT TO THE WORLD THEIR UNIQUE BRAND OF INNER CITY PUNK PSYCHEDELIA AND TIME WARP RETRO ROCK. WITH A LYRICAL TWIST THAT DESCENDS INTO THE POP NOIR OUIJI BOARD OF ETHEREAL EASY LISTENING WITH THE SENSATIONAL ’ CRAZYHEAD ’ THE SOFTLY DELIVERED LINES SUNG IN EARNESTNESS ARE THROWN AWAY FOR ’ LIVING AT MY MOTHER’S PLACE ’ AND ’ SPACEFACE ’ AS STUEY NEVER QUITE PULLS OFF THE ROCK BELTER ROLE BUT THAT’S A GOOD THING. THE JOE MEEK INSPIRED ’ SURF HARI KRISHNA ’ RETURNS TO THE MIXED UP TRIP OF ’ SPIDERS IN THE BATHROOM ’, THIS TIME AS AN OBSERVER WHILST THE SAMPLING OF ’ CRAZYHEAD ’ AND AN ARENA DOCUMENTARY BECOMES THE VEHICLE FOR THE EXPECTED TRIBUTE IN ’ MEET JOE MEEK ’. THE BABYSITARS CAN IF ANYONE CAN. ’ I’LL DO WHAT I WANT AND I’LL DO IT AGAIN ’ GOES CRAZYHEAD WITH PRIDE. THE BABYSITARS ARE A TRUE ACT ENTICING THE LISTENER WITH INFECTIOUS MELODY LINES AND UNEXPECTED HUMOUR WITH THE TIMING OF A WELL CONSTRUTED HORROR FLICK. STUART SITAR’S WORDS ARE SUBJECTIVE TO THE DEGREE OF COMPLETE HONESTY AND MIXED WITH STEVEN CRITTALL’S PRODUCTION REMINDS ONE OF A BOWIE/RONSON OPUS OR EVEN THE THINKING MAN’S CHINN/CHAPMAN WITHOUT ANY SHAME. RETRO? OF COURSE AND UNASHAMEDLY SO. ORIGINAL? THERE ARE MANY VOICES IN THERE BUT I CAN ONLY HEAR THE VOICE OF STUEY SITAR AND IN HIS OWN WORDS ’ LED ZEPPEDENCE TAKES PREFERENCE, OVER ZEN ’
SYDNEY KUSH, MARCH 2008.
