Consumer Guide Album

The Moldy Peaches: Origin Story 1994-1999 [Org Music, 2022]
I doubt many readers replay the only previous album by this duo-plus, the eponymous 2001 Rough Trade one I gave an A minus and then put right after "Love and Theft" at number two on that year's Dean's List, a full A after all. But around here it's a standard of sorts, and we own more records than you. In pretty much the same pattern, I soon found myself upping my provisional B plus for these 21 tracks in 34 minutes, which even for Kimya and Adam are pretty hither-and-yon, although only "On Top" and "Little Bunny Foo Foo" (in live as well as studio versions!) repeats from the debut. For fans only? Sure, you poor benighted ones. But ingenuous, whimsical, and shamelessly catchy nonetheless. Check out "Ugly Child." "Put Your Mama in a Headlock" too. A-