Category Archives: Crybaby Reviews

Crybaby, AKA Danny Coughlan, cuts through the swarm of singer-songwriters out there with bags of originality and a sharp cutting sound that reminds me of first listening to Johnny Cash – not in style but in the way all of the elements just work, in a way that’s hard to…

Danny Coughlan, the heart and song writing soul of Crybaby stands centre stage at the packed out Louisiana holding his guitar tight to his chest, preparing to play the last of a small tour promoting the band’s eponymous album, released this summer. What is plain to see is the poise…

The title track on Crybaby’s We’re Supposed To Be In Love EP is busting with dreamy guitar riffs that sound as if they could have been lifted from any 1960′s track. Couple this with the multi layering of instruments you get a texture similar (but certainly not as epic) as…

***** The title track is easy to listen to, but very reminiscent of the sixties. A theme that carries on through the E.P. it makes us wistful for a time we were never actually lived in. It’s possible like the folk revival of the fifties, the sixties is being brought…

We’re supposed to be in love Is Crybaby’s new single, the third to be taken from their acclaimed debut album. The title track is easy to listen to, but very reminiscent of the sixties. A theme that carries on through the E.P. it makes us wistful for a time we…

I’m not quite sure what is going on at the moment, but there seems to be a definite 60s revival in the air. Now maybe I am a little bit more sensitive to this having, just hosted a 60s themed Murder Mystery Party (which was well ‘groovy’ by the way)…

Meet Danny Coghlan, frontman of the instantly loveable ‘Crybaby’. As a young lad, Danny was enamoured with Adam and the Ants, so much so in-fact that he entered a competition to play the drums for the band. Unfortunately Danny didn’t win his hearts desire and ended up amongst the many…

***1/2 The third single taken from Crybaby’s acclaimed debut album includes a new track Water To Wine, a cover of Daniel Johnston’s True Love Will Find You In The End, and a version of Gloomy Sunday, a song originally made famous by Billie Holiday in 1933. The collective makes this…

Daniel Johnston’s True Love Will Find You in the End is a devastatingly simple, two-minute declaration of hope that often sounds like it’s trying to convince itself that everything’s going to be OK. While the title makes a bold statement, the lyrics undermine it slightly: “this is a promise with…

TEARS OF JOY An interview by Hannah Duncan I am a great believer in many things, 60 denier tights, crunchy peanut butter being superior to smooth, the feeling of warm sand between your toes and above all music. Music that instantly touches your soul, lets you stamp your own personal…

Crybaby We’re Supposed To Be In Love EP (Helium Records) **** The modern fascination with ‘retro’ has become rather tiring of late. If it’s not a gauloises-smoking clotheshorse pretending to be Jackie O, it’s some idiot romping around East London with portable record player. We’re not going to lie: it’s…

Crybaby, real-name Danny Coughlan, seems very keen to be the new poster-boy for heartbroken storytelling. And with his self-titled debut, he may just achieve that status. This compact collection of poignant ballads will no doubt project Bristol-born Crybaby into the limelight. Musically, it travels back in time to the 1950s,…