Since Blows Your Mind!, an elusive-but-worth-the-search gem, Baby Woodrose has become a three-person band, signed to Bad Afro, and recorded in a real studio.
Sweet, stinging, garage ’70s clang and buzz bites off whatever it needs from rock and the roll (Jesus and Mary Chain, Plexi and Earth18, Vaseline, Motocaster).
The Strangest Things is unfortunately as bland as its predecessor was glorious: All pretty pastel colors, Plain Jane-ing the songwriting right into Blandsville.