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Album Review

The Boy Least Likely To The Best Party Ever
Too Young To Die

Article written by Paul M
Feb 5, 2005.

A comp of As and Bs of three very limited singles, The Best Party Ever is a lovely collection of pop ballads musically far more cheerful than you might have expected from a band named after a Morrissey b-side (although the lyrics are actually also usually self deprecating). So don that hand knitted cardigan and wallow in a veritable indie schmindie experience, one that you’ll return to shamefaced like that Winnie the Pooh shaped hot water bottle you guiltily use on a cold night.

The jaunty Be Gentle With Me with its blissfully sweet chimes and smile inducing chorus kicks proceedings off, followed by songs influenced by many of your dripping wet favourites; the warm strings of Gorkys (Fur Soft as Fur), the knowing whimsy of Belle and Sebastian (Papercuts) and the foottapping fiddly joy of the Bluebells (Hugging My Grudge). The highlight, I’m Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon to your Star, can only be described as country tinged erm oompah kiddie folk; a tune so simple, so daft and so utterly gleeful you’ll need a full frontal lobotomy to rid it from your head afterwards. The best party ever? Well probably not, but certainly one of the twee-est. More jelly and apple bobbing in the home counties than snorting coke from a stranger’s arsecrack in an inner city squat but terrific all the same.

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