Baby Animals - Baby Animals

Baby Animals is the debut album by Australian hard rock band Baby Animals, originally released in September 1991 via Imago Records.

Baby Animals formed in Sydney in 1989 initially comprising Suze DeMarchi (guitar, vocals), Dave Leslie (guitar), Eddie Parise (bass) and Frank Celenza (drums).

The band recorded their debut album in New York with legendary Australian producer Mike Chapman. The recording sessions were positive with Chapman allowing the band to make music that they wanted to make, whilst making suggestions on improving the sound.

The results were very successful, with their debut single “Early Warning” reaching the Top 30 in the Australian Singles charts, and the second single “Rush You” repeating that chart success.

The album Baby Animals was released in September 1991 and debuted at #6 on the Australian Albums charts. In the following March 1992, the album spent six weeks at #1 on the charts and spent more than 45 weeks in the Top 50, becoming the highest selling debut Australian rock albums, until Jet’s Get Born was released in 2003.

The album is regarded as one of the very best Australian rock albums demonstrating the band’s confident melodic brand of hard rock, with a female lead vocalist. Baby Animals was listed at #96 in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.

Check out the tracks:  “Early Warning”; “Rush You”; “Painless”; “One Word”; and “Ain’t Gonna Get”.

This LP record is a 2017 reissue on black vinyl with inner sleeve, pressed in Australia via Liberation Music.