"One of the most obscure releases in Steven Stapleton's 'United Dairies' catalog. Musique Concret's sole LP 'Bringing Up Baby' came out in 1981, the perpetrators of this Industrial freak-out, Jim Friedman and Michael Mullen, have since vanished and the master tapes have been destroyed, so Fractal's 2004 CD reissue was put together from a mint LP copy, with Stapleton's blessing but without the musicians knowledge. Bringing Up Baby is one of those impossible to describe psychedelic sound orgies, somewhere between the Industrial feel of Nurse With Wound's output at the time and a strong influence from the French underground experimentalists 'Fille Qui Mousse' comes to mind, but also Philippe Besombes. The instrumentation includes synthesizers, guitars, hand percussion and miscellaneous found objects, along with crude electronics, manipulations and tape editing. Side A of the original LP consisted of the four-part suite 'Incidents in Rural Places', a stark piece with a Lovecraftian mood coupled with drug-induced eroticism. Its main theme evokes Alain Goraguer's soundtrack for 'La Planete Sauvage', but severely mutated through the prism of early '80s experimentalism. It is a surprising piece of work that has aged well and remains cutting-edge to this day. For that unclassifiable suite only, fans of weird psychedelism will consider Bringing Up Baby a collector's must and a fine listen to boot. Side B is overall less impressive. 'Organorgan' starts with a heavily distorted electric organ drone, before adding acid guitar licks and electronics. The 14-minute 'Wreath Pose at Sacrifice' opens with a toothbrush loop and communal soundmaking, before branching out to include radio transmissions and thick layers of harsh noise. A non-stop noise fest, the piece is raucous and chaotic, yet still somewhat good-humored. But it doesn't have the unique quality of 'Incidents in Rural Places' and offers a much tougher listen."
--François Couture 2004
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