The Moldy Peaches

• The Moldy Peaches [Rough Trade, 2001] A-

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The Moldy Peaches [Rough Trade, 2001]
They are your parents' nice children and they are not decadent, they're still nice. They don't so much risk cute as sit on its face--they're cute fatties who need a 40 before declaring their fear of skinny girls who talk about bands, cute folkies who break without warning into punk noise and sing a deeply catchy song called "Who's Got the Crack," cute floozies who'll fuck anybody with anything when that's their mood or stage of life. Ambitious teen Adam Green writes about hiring whores older than his mom, bunny-suited twentysomething Kimya Dawson about Josie and the Pussycats. Only Kimya is so lovesick, malleable, or deep-down bad that she'll sing anything Adam tells her to, like the rhyme line on (note st-k consonances) "Who mistook this steak for chicken?/Who'm I gonna stick my dick in?" She's going to be fine, though--in fact, she's fine now. If she wasn't, she wouldn't be cute. Would she? A-

See Also

• Outer Children: The Moldy Peaches Slip You a Roofie [2001-12-11]
• Kimya Dawson: I'm Sorry That Sometimes I'm Mean, Adam Green: Garfield [2002-11-14]