With its long-gestating debut CD crowning at last, Northern California’s Baby Seal Club is now primed to insinuate itself into the space between your ears. Born in a bathtub from a swirling nebula of alkaline dust, bourbon, limerence and hair product, Baby Seal Club has mutated from a ragtag bacchanalian side show into an artfully ear-reverent power pop band. Like a desert mirage solidifying into an art-rock hallucination, BSC exploded on stage with heart-thumping harmonies and pelvic-pounding rhythms, snaring them a North Bay Music Award for Best Indie Rock band. Yes, BSC chewed through the walls of its playpen and has never looked back (except to find lost keys and turn the stove off). The band has been an obsession for founding members Fudo (gallivanting guitar), Wizzbang Mahnkae (brazen bass), and Choklit Chanteuse (voluptuous vocals). They've thrown scraps of what they love musically and culturally into their creative blender and poured forth a sort of guitar-driven, post-modern-indie-art-quirk-glitter-punk-pop frappé -- perfect to quench the thirst of those who love to dance, bop, shimmy, shake, ruminate, masticate, primp, flame, titillate, wonder and smirk. With the recent addition of Nectar (their long-sought-after dream drummer) and Nashish (their ear candy generating multi-instrumentalist) the band is feeling unstoppable at last. Rounding out the group at live performances are occasional appearances by the Wavy Seals, Uncle Stabby (prurient percussion) and Ewephoria (temptress of toast). Once you’re hooked and your heart’s gone all flippy-floppity with silly human sentiment, you’ll want to join the other FlipperTrippers. Remember... it takes a cult.