Baby & Hide

Baby & Hide is an experimental post-rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The band is The Primary MusicAL vehicle for Jeremy Keller, who named the project after two precocious cats. Keller began the project after the dissolution of his former band, Everybody Uh Oh, and has over times recruited a number of fellow Chicago-area musicians to collaborate on recording and performance projects. According to the artist's website, Baby & Hide is "equal parts gay disco, ghetto at dawn, and pure indecisiveness" and, as a group, "simply want to be loved."

Keller's first primary recording under the umbrella of the Baby & Hide moniker was with acclaimed producer Brian Deck at his Engine Studios in Chicago. Those sessions yeilded the two tracks for the "Hark" b/w "Sigh" single, which was released on golden vinyl in 2006.

Before the release of the single, however, Keller recorded the 11-song album Normal People and released it both as a custom-packaged CD and as a free download from the Baby & Hide website. The album was recorded and produced by Keller without the use of computers "in an apartment in Chicago near the lake. Where it's creepy, not where it's expensive." Upon offering the album for free download, Keller commented that Normal People was "recommended for loner weirdos, literature grad students, eighteen year old girls, narcotics distributors, and the quintessential artist/waitress." The last three songs from the album - "Tasting My Eye," "Take It," and "In Sails" - were originally conceived and recorded as a single piece but were divided for ease of downloading. The complete piece, "Tasting My Eye, Take It In Sails," was the opening track on the 2006 TEAM AV compilation Everything You Feared It Could Be and has a running time of 9:34. The controversial Baby & Hide song "I Love My Boyfriend" also appeared on the same compilation.

In 2007 Keller took the same approach with the 7-song album Cozy, a more ambitious recording which collaborator Jeff Gorski described as "a vibrant and moody collection of electronic tempos and sounds, bombast and gentle melodies, like a somber, then wonderful dream, all at once." Gorski goes on to reference film soundtracks, the Paul Thomas Anderson film Punch Drunk Love, the popular DJ Moby, Icelandic rock group Sigur Rós, tribal warfare, film director John Hughes, science fiction, and "an animal creeping up on the listener, or something growing in the room" as touchpoints for the album's divergent sounds.

Discography

• Normal People (TEAM AV, 2005)
• Hark/Sigh (TEAM AV, 2006)
• Everything You Feared It Could Be (TEAM AV compilation, 2006)
• Cozy (TEAM AV, 2007)

External links

• Baby & Hide - Official website
• TEAM AV - label website