Baby Darling Doll Face Honey is the debut album for English alternative rock band Band of Skulls. It was released on April 7 2009 in England and July 28 2009 in America. The artwork is based on paintings by bass player/vocalist Emma Richardson.

Baby Darling Doll Face Honey was produced, recorded and mixed by Ian Davenport, (Supergrass, Badly Drawn Boy), and recorded at Radiohead's Courtyard Studios in Oxfordshire and mixed at the House of Blues studio in Los Angeles.

The special edition of this CD available at Best Buy includes a live version of the song "I Know What I Am" and an acoustic version of the song "Fires".

Track listing

Reception

Critical reception to Baby Darling Doll Face Honey has been mixed. The website PopMatters gave the album a 6 out of 10, stating that the album was "a mish-mash of three or four styles, recalling as many different artists, with songs written by all three band members and sung by two of them. If that sentence was dizzying to read, imagining hearing the album. It’s as if every cast member of Friends got to write and direct a different scene in a single episode. It’s as if every third letter on this page were a different color. It’s just, shall we say, a bit jarring." They go on to refer to the song, "Impossible" as mix of U2, Coldplay and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

References

1. http://www.bandofskulls.com/bio.html
2. http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Darling-Doll-Face-Honey/dp/B002AKAM38
3. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/108101-band-of-skulls-baby-darling-doll-face-honey/