When he graduated from high school, Jeremy Keller did what any self-respect… Read Full Bio ↴When he graduated from high school, Jeremy Keller did what any self-respecting musician on the verge of flowering would do – he went off to college, started a band and worked at a hip independent record distributor. As you might expect from a guy whose high school band was called Communist Barbeque (or something like that), whose college band was called Everybody Uh Oh, and whose current project is called Baby & Hide, Jeremy Keller stands out from a crowd. People notice him, much to his chagrin, but thankfully they notice his ability to write a great song as well. “Not only are the lyrics intelligent and the vocals and instrumentation wonderful,” raved The Big Take-Over’s Jack Rabid of Everybody Uh Oh’s only album, Man Am I Brad, going on to add that “the mix is just perfect.”
While still fronting Everybody Uh Oh, Keller left Champaign-Urbana on the heels of its last indie explosion (Hum, Braid, American Football) and holed up in his beloved Chicago, enrolling at Columbia College. It might not seem like it now, but there was a bit of a buzz brewing around Everybody Uh Oh, a fledgling band who were easily glossed up on the internet, and it was during that time that Keller was taken under the wing of uber-hip producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Grandaddy). Keller and Deck composed and recorded two remarkable songs together – “Hark” and “Sigh” – which were released on a nice yellow vinyl-only single in 2007. Wile milling about his hometown and making the occasional trip to New York, Keller and his cast of musicians opened a lot of big shows in Chicago for the likes of Spoon, Crooked Fingers, New Pornographers, Archer Prewitt, Stars, Final Fantasy, and others.
Since the expiration of Everybody Uh Oh, Keller has continued collaborating with Deck as well as longtime friend and producer Matt Mehlan, who experienced his own 15 seconds of internet fame with Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys. Recording sessions in which Keller and Mehlan cross-collaborate, which shift from Chicago to New York, ultimately produced the collection of songs of Normal People, which can only loosely be referred to as an album. After all, how exactly does one explain the eruption of the collection’s opener, “Friendmaker of Oppositedayland,” to someone who has never heard it? -- "It’s like a mariachi band fronting a Caribbean percussion crew, with a few detached M83-isms bleeping about in the foreground. Or like the Postal Service if the Postal Service wasn’t the soundtrack for Urban Outfitted yuppies." -- ???? What is that? Comparisons like that will go nowhere.
The point is that there are names that can be thrown at Baby & Hide – Xiu Xiu, Black Dice, Skeletons, Microphones, a more-drugs and less-dance Rapture – but none of them really stick to a sound so scattered and cerebral. There are moments scattered throughout Baby & Hide's songs that are easier to grasp – the sugary, distorted guitar that harkens back to Keller’s earlier work in Everybody Uh Oh, the blown-out backbeat, the flitting soft-twee keyboard flourishes – but that nonetheless manage to hold on to their artistic integrity within the flow of the 11 track collection known as Normal People, or the follow-up album, Cozy.
Wait - does that say 11 tracks on Normal People? It should technically say nine, although there are 11 songs that make up the set. The sticking point is in the closing trio – “Tasting My Eye,” “Take It,” and “In Sails” – which were composed as one nine-and-a-half-minute whole, but broken up for the sake of convenience on the album. The entire, unabbreviated tour-de-force, appropriately titled “Tasting My Eye, Take It In Sails,” can be heard as the opening track on the TEAM AV label sampler, Everything You Feared It Could Be. There the epic track is immediately followed by the previously unreleased song “I Love My Boyfriend.”
Although Keller is the only constant, he is at various times supported by Jeff Gorski, Leonard Joseph, Chris Pogorzelski, Drew Tarico, Matt Mehlan, Brian Deck. Free tracks can be downloaded at their offical website, www.babyandhide.com, or heard at their official Myspace site, myspace.com/babyandhide
While still fronting Everybody Uh Oh, Keller left Champaign-Urbana on the heels of its last indie explosion (Hum, Braid, American Football) and holed up in his beloved Chicago, enrolling at Columbia College. It might not seem like it now, but there was a bit of a buzz brewing around Everybody Uh Oh, a fledgling band who were easily glossed up on the internet, and it was during that time that Keller was taken under the wing of uber-hip producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Grandaddy). Keller and Deck composed and recorded two remarkable songs together – “Hark” and “Sigh” – which were released on a nice yellow vinyl-only single in 2007. Wile milling about his hometown and making the occasional trip to New York, Keller and his cast of musicians opened a lot of big shows in Chicago for the likes of Spoon, Crooked Fingers, New Pornographers, Archer Prewitt, Stars, Final Fantasy, and others.
Since the expiration of Everybody Uh Oh, Keller has continued collaborating with Deck as well as longtime friend and producer Matt Mehlan, who experienced his own 15 seconds of internet fame with Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys. Recording sessions in which Keller and Mehlan cross-collaborate, which shift from Chicago to New York, ultimately produced the collection of songs of Normal People, which can only loosely be referred to as an album. After all, how exactly does one explain the eruption of the collection’s opener, “Friendmaker of Oppositedayland,” to someone who has never heard it? -- "It’s like a mariachi band fronting a Caribbean percussion crew, with a few detached M83-isms bleeping about in the foreground. Or like the Postal Service if the Postal Service wasn’t the soundtrack for Urban Outfitted yuppies." -- ???? What is that? Comparisons like that will go nowhere.
The point is that there are names that can be thrown at Baby & Hide – Xiu Xiu, Black Dice, Skeletons, Microphones, a more-drugs and less-dance Rapture – but none of them really stick to a sound so scattered and cerebral. There are moments scattered throughout Baby & Hide's songs that are easier to grasp – the sugary, distorted guitar that harkens back to Keller’s earlier work in Everybody Uh Oh, the blown-out backbeat, the flitting soft-twee keyboard flourishes – but that nonetheless manage to hold on to their artistic integrity within the flow of the 11 track collection known as Normal People, or the follow-up album, Cozy.
Wait - does that say 11 tracks on Normal People? It should technically say nine, although there are 11 songs that make up the set. The sticking point is in the closing trio – “Tasting My Eye,” “Take It,” and “In Sails” – which were composed as one nine-and-a-half-minute whole, but broken up for the sake of convenience on the album. The entire, unabbreviated tour-de-force, appropriately titled “Tasting My Eye, Take It In Sails,” can be heard as the opening track on the TEAM AV label sampler, Everything You Feared It Could Be. There the epic track is immediately followed by the previously unreleased song “I Love My Boyfriend.”
Although Keller is the only constant, he is at various times supported by Jeff Gorski, Leonard Joseph, Chris Pogorzelski, Drew Tarico, Matt Mehlan, Brian Deck. Free tracks can be downloaded at their offical website, www.babyandhide.com, or heard at their official Myspace site, myspace.com/babyandhide
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