Does You Inspire You
(Kanine Records)
Release Date: 09/30/2008 12:00
This Brooklyn-by-way-of-Colorado trios specialtynew-age nonsense meets 80s synth popis the musical equivalent of those T-shirts featuring nighttime wilderness scenes and Native American chieftains: kitsch-hip goofiness suffused with a simple and endearing Midwest charm. Caroline Polachek carries the melodic weight with a breathy and nimble contralto (think Dido), and she has a knack for enjoying childlike fantasies without sounding immature: On Planet Health, she sighs about the food pyramid, stop-drop-and-roll, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and other fifth-grade health-class staplesits a molasses-covered, electro-funk fantasy of innocence, and it throbs like Prince on sizzurp. Throughout, atmospheric ennui tugs against upbeat synth-popthis band is best when its got a beat. Witness Evident Utensil, doubtless the best dance track ever written about a pencil.
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