Crybaby: Crybaby – review

(Helium)You can mark out the emotional territory occupied by Crybaby by listening to the song from which Danny Coughlan took the name for this terrific album. Cry Baby by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters is one of those overwrought early-60s ballads in which romantic disappointment is a world unto itself, and so it is with Crybaby. Coughlan's rich, brooding baritone and eye for everyday detail – "We trace her steps across linoleum in kitten heels," he sings on When the Lights Go Out – br...

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