Tuesday, June 23, 2020

it's tunesday! ("alien in my nose" by trout fishing in america)


For those unfamiliar, Trout Fishing in America is a musical partnership between Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood. They have what I will call, for lack of a better way of putting it, a dual personality. Some of their two dozen or so albums are "serious" music, while the others are what they seem to call their "family" albums. It's tempting to think of those as children's music, since they are definitely trying to appeal to kids. But they're really not just kids' music. It's a testament to how good they are that I prefer these albums to the serious stuff. I generally am not enamored of kids' music as I often find it to be either insipid or copndescending. But they do a good job of making music that's accessible for kids and enjoyable for adults. This, sounding like the best of new wave power pop, is one of my favorites.

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