In this day and age of digital media, getting a press package in the mail is always a welcome surprise. The best and frankly most fun one of this year’s dwindling bunch was a press kit from garage-punk outfit Feral Babies, which included two cassette tape copies of their self-titled five-song EP and a limited edition Feral Babies sugar cookie duo, the standard round cookie paired with one shaped like a music note and both covered in a thick layer of icing. A burned CD copy of the album was thrown into the box as a seeming afterthought. facebook.com/feralbabies.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.