Live How You Listen

"packed with immediate thrills... this Mommy And Daddy are making a pretty sexy noise"

"duelling and duetting chic American offspring of the Sex Pistols"

"Probably the loudest, most confident duo on today's music scene, Mommy and Daddy epitomise New York anti-cool."

Mommy and Daddy are the leading New York power couple. Vivian Sarratt and Edmond Hallas made a decision that they needed to put together the most kick ass band that they could. It had to be foxy, unforgettable, and tight as spanking new denim. With stripped down drum loops, fuzzed out melodic bass lines, and trade off boy/girl vocals, Mommy and Daddy sound like a tag team steel cage match between the B-52s and PiL.

As Time Out NY testifies, "Mommy and Daddy are astonishing...watch Mommy and Daddy." When she sings and pushes buttons, he plays bass guitar. When he sings and pushes buttons, she plays bass guitar. The formula is simple, but yields extraordinary results. Live they are at turns clever and impulsive, offbeat and archly cool. Daddy plays it mean, smoldering with pure rock-star psychopath intensity. Mommy is the rock-diva hellcat par excellence - with complete abandon Vivian takes the stage like the punk princess she is, born for stardom and set to take the vacant throne of punk monarchy with insouciant deviance. They have that classic polarising effect of great bands on their audiences - all the boys want to kiss Mommy, while the girls want to be her: as it is with Daddy, only the opposite way around.

Named as one of the Best New Bands in New York magazine, with celebrity-attended gigs, the buzz on Mommy and Daddy is ever growing. Signed to Big Cat Records (founder label of Jeff Buckley, Palace Brothers and Pavement), this is the first album release on Big Cat since its split from V2. With 7" singles described as "so arch it could wash its feet with its hair" (drownedinsound.com / 'Permed Past Her Prime') and as having "stripped the prevailing New York genre down to its bare essentials" (NME / ‘What Is The Function?) their debut album 'Live How You Listen' is very exciting indeed. Produced by the heady combination of Bob Brockman (Biggie Smalls, Mary J. Blige) and NY Hardcore legend Don Fury, it promises to be "the catchiest, sexiest, most addictive punk record ever made with one bass guitar and a groove box. Even if it's the only one".