New Music Monday: Amazing Baby

Photograph Cred: PR (guardian.co.uk)As a natural cynic, the quickest way of ensuring I'll gloss over a new band is to hear them described as "the new ". It generally results in a diluted imitation of said group carrying at best one lead single of any merit. So when I hear the excitement surrounding Amazing Baby centres around their similarity to fellow Brooklynites MGMT, and that they only formed after "Time To Pretend" started pervading our consciousness, my "unwarranted hype gauge" goes off ...

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