Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt(K Records: 2008)
Kimya Dawson has released an album that....your kid needs to hear!!??!!
It's true. But come on. You knew it was coming, I mean, if her work with Antsy Pants wasn't foreboding enough, she was pregnant you know. It would be weird if she didn't write songs about children now. Alas, rest your weary musical fears, it's still the old Kimya.
Dawson has been around for a fairly long time, releasing some indie gems with Adam Green as The Moldy Peaches. Yet while the Peaches did some really great things as a band, for me the driving force in the band was always Dawson’s witty lyrics, rambunctious energy, and simplicity in style and delivery. Her fame “skyrocketed” with the release of the movie, Juno, for which she allowed several songs to be used (the film features both her solo work and work with her other projects, including The Moldy Peaches and Antsy Pants). I use the term “skyrocketed” only because in most serious music circles, The Moldy Peaches a.k.a. Kimya and Adam Green had already been digested, along with to an extent, K Records, as one of the great “hidden treasures” of the anti-folk genre. But I digress...
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