MAC BLACKOUT- 'The Rabid Babies' CD ~EX FUNCTIONAL BLACKOUTS

MAC BLACKOUT- 'The Rabid Babies' CD.  Here it is, the new CD from MAC BLACKOUT of the Functional Blackouts and Daily Void.  Reference points? Kraftwerk, Devo, Screamers, Big Black, Chrome. But they should only be viewed as reference points because MAC BLACKOUT doesn’t really sound like any of them. Thankfully you can’t really pigeonhole MAC BLACKOUT as another one dimensional dark and depressed bedroom renaissance man. Ya a lot of his songs do definitely have a very bleak, pessimistic view of the world. But there are other songs on ‘The Rabid Babies’ that are more care free, silly and almost playful. Normally, I’d be pretty quick to dismiss songs like that as cheeky, emotional d*ou*che-baggery, but they’re written and presented in a way that you can’t help but love ‘em. Just take the whistling chorus in ‘Fifteen Minutes Of Famous Screams’ or the off kilter Xylophone tinkering in ‘Pocket For Everything'.  At the surface and on their own, they’d probably sound really corny. But in the c