Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt reviews
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 The unspoken joke about this album of children's music from the Juno-soundtrack star is that Kimya Dawson's purposely primitive anti-folk songs have always sounded like the stuff of nursery-school rhyme time. So what distinguishes the tunes on Alphabutt from Dawson's other work? More poop talk! ''F is for fart/G is for gorilla fart,'' goes the alphabet-instructing title track. (And H? ''Huge gorilla fart.'') That said, don't assume Dawson can't get in a grown-up laugh: ''Bobby-O'' is a portrait of the ''skinny younger brother of Fabio....full text |
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| Billboard |
| "Juno" made Kimya Dawson something of a voice for the teen gestalt, but her latest effort plays to a younger set. "Alphabutt" is a children's album, 15 songs in 27 minutes that have a breezy, unconditional innocence and more than a little silliness. There are plenty of rectal references ("G is for gorilla fart/H is for huge gorilla fart," she sings in the title track, while "Pee-Pee in the Potty" is an a cappella ode to just that) but also simple slices of everyday life that have their own kind of poignancy. Whether it's a trip to visit extended family ("Uncle Hukee's House"), an examination of a sock and underwear drawer ("Seven Hungry Tigers") or an agenda-setting song to a child ("I Love You Sweet Baby"), there's always a cheery countenance amid lo-fi arrangements that sound like they were recorded in the family rec room....full text |
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| Pitchforkmedia |
Alphabutt, Kimya Dawson's long-awaited children's album-- and her first release since contributing a handful of tracks to the Juno soundtrack-- is not so different from what she typically does: It's packed with odd, irreverent, snickering folksongs about banal or unremarkable situations. Only now, instead of skewering complex adult relationships, she's crowing, mostly, about poo.
Inspired, in part, by her two-year old daughter Panda Delilah, Alphabutt sees Dawson (formerly one-half of New York anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches) singing simply and without affect, her voice deep and pleasantly scruffy, like a chewed-up, over-squished teddy bear. Dawson takes a lot of hits for being precious (a good chunk of that derision is probably tied up in post-homeskillet backlash), but Alphabutt, while predictably cute, is also frank and funny and delightfully rude. It's accessible but not cloying; Dawson doesn't pander or patronize or adopt the kind of preposterous, over-annunciated, beyond-Broadway cartoon voice that plagues so many children's records. More important, her work is candid and funny and matchless: What parent wouldn't want to play his or her kid an alphabet song (the stupid-charming "Alphabutt") where 70% of the letters refer to multi-species flatulence, "V" stands for flying-V, and "C" stands for cat butt?...full text |
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