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- The Moldy Peaches [Rough Trade, 2001] A-
- Origin Story 1994-1999 [Org Music, 2022] 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-
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-