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- Date Released: May 29, 2007
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Pop
- Label: Hidden Agenda Records
Go ahead, tell that ill-advised crush exactly how you feel. The Moonbabies have your back.
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We Say...
With chiming pianos, gently buzzing synthesizers, boy/girl vocals and a furiously strummed acoustic guitar, the Moonbabies have internalized the map to indie-pop hearts so well that you’d think they’d be ready to throw it away on their fourth full-length. Let’s take a moment to thank God they haven’t.
Still there?
Why? You should be listening to “Take Me to the Ballroom” right now and enjoying the way the group takes the compass and heads towards melancholy, or “Cocobelle,” which has an extended intro that sounds a little bit like My Bloody Valentine covering the Pipettes. Like their contemporaries, Stars, the Moonbabies eat all kinds of pop (surf-, girl-, synth-, bedroom-, cod-alt.country-) and shit diamonds. (Which is no mean feat, considering the wasteland that is indie-pop these days.)
More than anything, though, Moonbabies at the Ballroom is perfect mood music. While they may be inside in the ballroom, the acoustic screams summer: screen doors, BBQ’s, porch swings. Put on “Walking on My Feet” the next time you’re down by the lake and see if you aren’t moved to tell that ill-advised crush exactly how you feel. And say another thank you to the Moonbabies when they say “yes.” -
They Say...
There's just something intrinsically pleasing about the pairing of synthesizers and acoustic guitars, but since folks started figuring this out en masse (somewhere around the time Beth Orton hit the scene), listeners have been in perpetual danger of too much of a good thing. Swedish duo the Moonbabies have managed to stay on the right side of familiar through varying their approach. As a result, their fourth full-length album ranges from the Air-like bliss-out "21st Century Heart" to a folky little guitar instrumental, "Ratatouille," that wouldn't sound out of place on a John Martyn album. In between those sonic extremes, Ola Frick and Carina Johansson deftly recalibrate the balances to create dreamy ballads like "The 9th" and more urgent turns like Johannson's snappy "Take Me to the Ballroom." They even take the time for a couple of charming stylistic pastiches: "Shout It Out" playfully lifts the main hook from "Then He Kissed Me" for its chiming intro riff, and the lengthy "Dancing in the Sky" closes the album with a shimmering languor akin to the High Llamas' Hawaii period. So there's little that's actually new on Moonbabies at the Ballroom, but the deft mixing of musical styles and influences can be appealing on its own merits.
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21st Century Heart |
2:26 |
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| 02. | |
War On Sound |
3:45 |
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| 03. | |
Take Me To The Ballroom |
3:57 |
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| 04. | |
Don't Ya Know |
3:51 |
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| 05. | |
Cocobelle |
4:02 |
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| 06. | |
Ratatouille |
1:25 |
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| 07. | |
Walking On My Feet |
3:57 |
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| 08. | |
Shout It Out |
3:46 |
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| 09. | |
The 9th |
4:23 |
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| 10. | |
Weekend A-Go-Go |
5:57 |
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| 11. | |
Dancing In The Sky |
5:25 |
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11 Total Tracks, 42:54 Total Length
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Credits
- Peter Lindgard - Trumpet // Henrik Jonsson - Mastering // Ola Frick - Vocals // Ola Frick - Producer // Ola Frick - Artwork // Ola Frick - Design // Ola Frick - Mixing // Ola Frick - Instrumentation // Carina Johansson - Vocals // Carina Johansson - Producer // Carina Johansson - Mixing // Carina Johansson - Instrumentation // Anders Sejr Davidsen - Drums
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