Critics Pass Away

Baby Dayliner created his own musical niche in New York's alternative rock and rap scenes in the early to mid-2000s. His offbeat, cabaret-lounge vocal style has elicited comparisons extending from Frank Sinatra to David Bowie to Ian Curtis, and yet his musical influences include an even stranger gamut: '80s synth pop, underground rap, folk songwriting, '50s rockabilly and pop,...