First Listen – Tribes, ‘Baby’

As a Scot and a music journalist, I like things that are distilled. I particularly appreciate people with a eye and an ear for the barest and most primal vocabulary of rock’n’roll. The lyrical equivalents of ‘house’, ‘tree’, ‘stone’ and bread’ are words like ‘kiss’, ‘girl’, ‘night’, ‘fire’ and ‘soul’ (that’s half a Spiritualized album right there). So when I learned that Tribes’ debut album was called simply ‘Baby’, I knew they must be alright, even ...

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