Good afternoon all! My name is Ken and I am new here too. I ran a blog years ago and I am glad to be writing again. I too have a bad problem with music, so thanks for the opportunity as well PJ!! If you want me to check out your band or just want to follow my daily thoughts on music and life you can follow me on my other addiction Twitter @hitswitchken…..so on with the first review.
When I first started blogging, albeit for another blog, one of the first bands I wrote about back in 2005 was The Boy Least Likely To. Over 4 years later, some legal troubles with their former label and loads of placements in movie soundtracks including Juno and recently on one of the newest J.C. Penney commercials for the band — and a few moves, a few job changes, finishing grad school, and marriage for me — we are finally seeing the second release from the band’s follow up to their excellent debut The Best Party Ever.
The band’s newest offering The Law of the Playground is not so much a leap forward as it is simply just another batch of wonderful pop songs from a band that knows what they are good at. Call it country disco pop, twee, or whatever you like but the simple fact is that the songs are great. Themes of paranoia, melancholy, and a general fear of growing up still permeate the lyrics of the record, but just as with the first record these themes are laced with hints of hop and hidden under the sounds of bouncy happy melodies, banjos, handclaps, and glockenspiels.
MP3: The Boy Least Likely To :: “Saddle Up”
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