 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website • view ad • buy tickets |
 |
| • website |
 |
| • website • view ad |
Share
It's Their Party and They'll Be Frail if They Want to
Mikael Wood
Tuesday, February 28th 2006
-
photo: Tim O.
Don't puke yet
Details:
The Best Party Ever
Too Young To Die
Stream "Be Gentle With Me" (Real Player)
Next week these U.K. indie-pop wimps set out on a North American tour with James Blunt, the former Kosovo peacekeeper who surprised the world by proving that it's possible to be more insufferable than David Gray. Trés savvy: Nothing makes tunes called "Warm Panda Cola" and "God Takes Care of the Little Things" sound less puke worthy than ones titled "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover."
On The Best Party Ever, their debut (out since 2005 in England, but due here next month), the Boy Least Likely To come off as the boys most likely to replace Belle and Sebastian in the hearts of frail indie folk for whom Belle's recent diversion into swinging T. Rex glam-boogie constituted treason. Like Stuart Murdoch, singer Jof Owen tempers his hothouse melodrama with crucial wisps of black comedy; in "Fur Soft as Fur" he celebrates "fresh strawberries and cream" before admitting, "Sometimes at work I feel like a machine."
Owen's multi-instrumentalist partner Pete Hobbs helps keep the train out of the ditch too. He laces "Sleeping With a Gun Under My Pillow" with tumbling-tumbleweed slide guitar, and makes a jubilant Fisher-Price fiesta out of "I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to Your Star." Best party ever? Hardly. Best pity party ever? Maybe.
The Boy Least Likely To play Webster Hall March 14-15.
Recent Articles
More by Mikael Wood
Site Search «
Most Popular
-
Michael Jackson: The Man in Our Mirror Black America's eulogies for the King of Pop also let us resurrect his best self
-
The Queer Issue: Rachel Maddow, the New Sexy The Butch is back, with a poster girl
- An Unlikely Rescuer from the Jaws of Debt
-
The Queer Issue: The Rise of Rentboys Hustling goes legit
-
The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate "Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again
| buy, sell, trade 11,080 | musician 3,513 |
| rentals 18,552 | jobs 2,364 |
| adult entertainment 28,616 | |
| classifieds | backpage.com | Post ads for free! | |
|---|---|