{{Short description|American music project}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist |name = Bablicon |background = group_or_band |origin = [[Chicago, Illinois]] | genre = {{flatlist| *[[Psychedelic music|Psychedelia]] *[[free jazz]] *[[post-rock]]<ref name="allmusic">{{AllMusic | id= bablicon-mn0000069061 | last-name=Unterberger |first-name=Richie title= Bablicon}}</ref> *[[progressive rock]] *[[Lo-fi music|lo-fi]] }} |years_active = 1996–2002 |label = {{hlist|[[Misra Records|Misra]]|Pickled Egg Records}} |past_members = * Dave McDonnell *[[Jeremy Barnes (musician)|Jeremy Barnes]] * Griffin Rodriguez }}
'''Bablicon''' was an American [[The Elephant 6 Recording Company|Elephant 6]]-affiliated musical project, consisting of members of [[Neutral Milk Hotel]] and [[the Gerbils]], formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2002.
Dave McDonnell—credited as the Diminisher—formed the band with [[Jeremy Barnes (musician)|Jeremy Barnes]] using the pseudonym "Marta Tennae", and Griffin Rodriguez going by "Blue Hawaii". All three members were multi-instrumentalists in the band.<ref name="allmusic" /> Their album ''In A Different City'' was released in 1999 in the US by their American Label, Misra, and in the UK by Pickled Egg Records, with them doing a UK tour with the latter label's other artists signed at the time. The band had their audience paint alternative LP covers while they performed, which were later collected as "Painticons" and distributed as the actual album covers for the US LP versions of the album.
Their next release, the ''Orange Tapered Moon'' EP, followed in 2000, and was recorded during late night marathon sessions at [[WFMU]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-orange-tapered-moon-mw0000615837|title=The Orange Tapered Moon - Bablicon | Album | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> In 2001, the band released the album ''A Flat Inside A Fog, The Cat That Was A Dog''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-flat-inside-a-fog-the-cat-that-was-a-dog-mw0000011937|title=A Flat Inside a Fog: The Cat That Was a Dog - ... | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> The band split following this release, with McDonnell studying in China and starting the project Michael Columbia project with drummer [[Dylan Ryan (drummer)|Dylan Ryan]], Barnes going to France to work on other projects, and Rodriguez working on his [[Icy Demons]] project. Barnes now records as [[A Hawk and a Hacksaw]].
In 2021, Bablicon were interviewed by the blog Navel-Gazers, discussing their history and sharing photos, then-unknown trivia, and their projects and activities since breaking up/going on hiatus.<ref>{{cite interview |author=Andrew |title=Bablicon: A Flat Inside A Fog, The Cat That Was A Dog |url=https://blog.navelgazers.co.uk/2021/02/bablicon-flat-inside-fog-cat-that-was.html |website=Navel-Gazers |access-date=21 October 2025}}</ref>
==Discography== All albums, singles, and EPs were released by the US and UK labels, except for two Japanese pressings of the single "Chunks of Syrup Amidst Plain Yoghurt", which were released by Japanese label, Contact Records.
===Albums=== * ''In a Different City'' (CD/LP) - Pickled Egg Records/Misra Records - 1999<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-a-different-city-mw0000087631|title=In a Different City - Bablicon | Album | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> * ''A Flat Inside A Fog, The Cat That Was A Dog'' (CD/LP) - Pickled Egg/Misra - 2001
===Singles and EPs=== * ''Chunks of Syrup Amidst Plain Yoghurt'' (7") - Pickled Egg/Contact Records - 1999 * ''The Orange Tapered Moon'' - (12"/CD) - Pickled Egg/Misra - 2000
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060102220420/http://www.elephant6.com/bands/bablicon.html Elephant6.com] on Bablicon * [http://www.pickled-egg.co.uk/bablicon.htm Bablicon] Pickled Egg Records artist description * [https://misrarecords.com/bablicon Bablicon] Misra Records artist description * [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p380698/biography|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic entry]
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