We love Baptiste cos they sound like Moose. This music is clean, restrained, tuneful, gtr'n'drums and the male vox who's so cool he can smoke a whole cig without using his fingers and without making his eyes water - and when you find a lover THAT good you so tend to want to hang on to him. Baptiste are playing the long game - those lovers are great too. Playing it slow... lovely... making about one single per decade till the word gets around on legs that meet at yr favourite spot, b-side starts with swearing and then becomes a gtr-heavy jangly instrumental. If all/any/other "underground" indie-gtr bands were as good as this then that Sid fella out of Who Moved The Ground wou;ld have a point [reference to review earlier in fanzine discussing the need for "underground groups to stick together"]. Hold on, phone just gone, someone wanting relief from the power of their beauty - "beauty is a curse" and all that stuff - yeah yeah tell me about it, and she did, but I had Baptiste on in the background for a few moments and that was very nice.

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