the moldy peaches

Now that the awe and romance of V-Day is a thing of the past lets talk about a band named after decomposing fruit :)
Check out the "Lucky Number Nine" video and the review I wrote for class.




Begin with track 10 “Anyone Else But You”. WTF? might be the first thing to cross your mind. Next, you’ll wonder if it was a child’s mother’s day gift gone askew. And then, without realizing it, a smile will seep across your face. Welcome to The Moldy Peaches.

“Anyone Else But You”, the hit made popular by the 2007 “Juno” movie soundtrack is the best entry point into the wacky sound of The Moldy Peaches. The 19-track album is a Russian roulette of sound that refuses to fit compactly in any specific genre. The album dabbles in indie, alternative, hip hop, pop, country and straight noise.

Starting with track 10 ensures that the first four songs you hear will be some of the album’s best. “Little Bunny Foo Foo” has the awkwardly endearing sound found with late '60s band The Shaggs, specifically their song “My Pal Foot Foot”. Despite the lo-fi recording it’s easy to bop along with. The lyrics sound like a child’s bedtime story and in a little over a minute your Foo Foo Bunny experience will be over and you might just want to play it again.

Listening to “Who’s Got The Crack?” is the most fun your ears will have this month. Kimya Dawson and Adam Green’s overlapping vocals provide an anthem-like tune that would sound best at a live show.
Just when you’re really starting to like the album, you’ll stagger over a track like swing-sound inspired “Downloading Porn With Davo” or “What Went Wrong” a cacophony of shouts and whines that sounds more like a murder than music. “These Burgers” sounds like a drug-induced diatribe.
Some songs are charming and others are awful. There is no way to love every song on the album. This is okay. Lyrics are reason enough to invest in the album, from “Lucky Number Nine” (“I’m running out of ethnic friends. But hey, I’m starting to feel okay”) to “Nothing Came Out” (“I’m just a huge crack in the ass of humanity. I’m just a huge manitee”).
Critics have bludgeoned The Moldy Peaches for their nonsensical, occasionally crude lyrics and lack of skill but the sound comes across as something true to the artists, a sound that has not been tampered with. The band has been on a hiatus since 2004, someone tell them its time to get back to work.