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I really want to like these guys, because I read somewhere that they got their band name because they refer to themselves as "Mommy and Daddy" when they're addressing their beloved pet cats. I mean, COME ON! It's almost like they planted that little tidbit in the press just to endear themselves to saps like me!
Plus, they just seem like really nice people! Vivian Sarratt and Edmond Hallas met in a Philosophy class back in 1998, they got married in 2000 (like me and Mike did!), and then they moved to New York City and started making music together (like me and Mike didn't!). They refer to themselves as the "Sonny & Cher of Electro-Punk"! That's just too cute!
But, oh yeah, I don't like electro-punk! :( So darn. It's good what they do though! I like the part in "Cops" where Vivian sings "I'll never see/I'll never learn" against a droning organ background. I wish I could give you some kind-of reference point as to who they remind me of, but again, it's just not usually the kinda style of music I listen to. (janice.11.05)
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When we received this CD I thought to myself, OK, there's a 95% chance that this will be awful, and maybe a 5% chance that I'll be surprised and it will be good. I failed to consider a third option, which is that it is actually somewhere in the middle: it doesn't make me cringe or anything, but neither do I like it. Mommy and Daddy is a married duo, which makes their name slightly less creepy (or more, perhaps). They switch off on bass, electronics, and vocals, and have a fuzzed-out electro-punk sound driven by very late-80s-sounding drum machine beats. (They may actually be ahead of their time, since the late-80s retro revival is still a few years down the road.)
The girl's voice is somewhere between Kate Pierson and Johnette Napolitano, if you can imagine that, and the boy is pretty much doing his best Johnny Lydon impersonation, which causes his songs to sound an awful lot like PiL. The cheeky band name and humorous CD title might have led me to expect something a little more fun and playful and a little less bombastic...but I guess in the end my expectations don't matter if I don't like it. (mike.03.05)
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