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- Date Released: September 11, 2001
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Rough Trade
Sweet n' sassy lo-fi folk from beloved Juno balladeers
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We Say...
In 2008, it would be remiss to discuss Kimya Dawson and Adam Green’s debut album proper without mentioning Juno, the 2007 comedy in which Ellen Page plays a lippy teen confronting an unwanted pregnancy. The film’s soundtrack features “Anyone Else But You," a song from this, the Moldy Peaches’ eponymous lo-fi curio. The way Green tells it, the Peaches’ playful, "audible hiss" aesthetic influenced Juno’s whole soundtrack, but what’s clear is that the film revived interest in the duo’s work. “Frankly, it’s been a bit displacing," Green told me in 2007. “Seven years after we made [The Moldy Peaches] people are suddenly interested.”
Having met at Exile on Main Street Records in Mount Kisco, New York, Dawson and Green formed the Moldy Peaches in 2000. Exponents of anti-folk (an irreverent genre that questions the importance of acoustic troubadour-types being earnest), they were soon writing the kind of discursive, graphic, scatological or plain controversial songs that zip by in 18 short installments on The Moldy Peaches.
“Downloading Porn With Davo” — imagine an X-rated rethink of Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” — certainly raised a few eyebrows at the time, as did “Who’s Got the Crack," but “Jorge Regula," with its naïf tuba and simple, call and response vocals, is as child-friendly as Sesame Street’s Big Bird in let-me teach-you-a-song mode. Elsewhere, "The Ballad of Helen Keller & Rip Van Winkle" conjures Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra with L-plates, and you have to admire the Beasties-on-a-budget chutzpah of “On Top.”
There’s a punk mind-set at play here, a spontaneous, sometimes improvised-sounding approach that can soar or flounder. At its best, though, The Moldy Peaches has a rough-hewn slacker charm that is irresistible. Dawson and Green build hooks from skewed vocal inflections (see "Anyone Else But You"), and prove to be one of indie’s oddest, most entertaining duos. -
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Many of the songs on the Moldy Peaches' eponymous album are musically quite good, as the band has a great lo-fi approach to music.
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Credits
- Chris Barron - Guitar // Chris Barron - Vocals // Chris Barron - Vox Organ // Adam Green - Band // Adam Green - Performer // The Moldy Peaches - Main Performer
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