Crybaby

Official Website: http://ohcrybaby.com/

Danny Coughlan is from Bristol and being a musician was his only ambition from an early age. As the years went on Danny would make music under many guises, from a heavy metal band at school to a sharply dressed mod-soul band Babel, who were signed to Acid Jazz offshoot People Tree. However, it wasn't until November 2010 when Danny bought a 4-track tape machine on eBay and began to write a load of new songs that drew on all the records he's loved since childhood. His demos came to the attention of Helium Records who put Danny in the studio with Merrick (Chris Hughes) from Adam & The Ants, who plays drums on several songs and co-produced the record with Mark Frith. What emerged from the sessions was Crybaby. Named after Garnet Mimms' Cry Baby - one of the truly seminal songs in the development of soul music, it was famously covered by Janis Joplin - the name also references the John Waters film and hints at that peculiarly lachrymose strain of early 60s RnB. The resulting self-titled album is a collection of blissfully spare, fully focussed pieces propelled by dramatic imagery and gripping melody.