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Live Review: FEATURE ARTIST: Babaganouj

20 March 2012 | 10:33 am | Staff Writer

Babaganoüj is fronted by former Yves Klein Blue guitarist Charles Sale and is the first new music I’ve heard from a former-YKB member.

Remember when Yves Klein Blue broke up? ‘Cause I do. I’d like to hark back to the days of my youth, when I picked up my first Scene Magazine – Brisbane kids know what I’m talking about – and read about an up and coming band called Yves Klein Blue. I looked up their Myspace – because in those days everyone and their blog was on Myspace – and was quick to fall in love with YKB’s unique sound and cool indie haircuts.

The fact that they were from Brisbane – “oh my God, I’m from Brisbane too!” – was like the cherry atop a moist, fresh-out-of-the-oven cupcake. (My early teens were a time when I fondly imagined that no one cool could possibly reside in Brisbane, and boy have I been proven wrong since.)

And then, in 2011, I got an email as part of their mailing list saying that they’d disbanded. (Subsequently, I sobbed into my laptop.) And you know what? I’m still not over it.

But I’m not here to talk about Yves Klein Blue. I’m here to talk about a new band: BABAGANOUJ. How are they relevant to Yves Klein Blue? you ask, and I’m glad you did because the answer is, they aren’t!

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Kind of.

You see, Babaganoüj is fronted by former Yves Klein Blue guitarist Charles Sale and is the first new music I’ve heard from a former-YKB member. And that’s where the similarities between the two end.

However!

Those of you hoping for YKB 2.0 shouldn’t vacate the page just yet. The Noüj (I’ll be calling them The Noüj from here on out) will be releasing their first EP in late 2012 and, if the single they’ve released is any indication, I’m going to go all teeny-bopper for their shit as well.

‘It’s Rainin’ It’s Summer’ boasts a plethora of guitar riffs taken from the Sixties, backup vocals straight out of a Grouplove song, and sounds like the title track from an Eighties coming-of-age film. This combination amounts to a sum total of awesome.

To summarize: Babaganoüj isn’t going to fill the Yves Klein Blue shaped hole in my heart any time soon. But they just might offer something different – and, in a lot of ways, better.