Swedish Grammy winners and "sleaze 'n' roll commandos" Backyard Babies have joined Abacus Recordings. The band will be releasing their upcoming full length, titled People Like People Like People Like Us via the label on May 6th, 2006.

The album was produced by Nicke Andersson of fellow Swedes, the Hellacopters and the band had this to say about the sound:

It's a more dynamic album with a more modulated sound where Nicke Andersson taught us how to 'play together' but at the same time it was his restlessness that gave the album its honest and simple sound. We wrote more intense and under a shorter period than ever before. A challenge that proved to be just positive since you don't have time to analyze everything to pieces.

You can listen to partial tracks of the entire album and see a clip from the first video, "The Mess Age (How Could I Be So Wrong)", on the brand new Backyard Babies website and the band will be supporting the album with tours of Scandinavia,the UK and Europe during spring and summer, and then making their way to the United States, Japan, and Australia in the fall.