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  • Artist: Kimya Dawson
  • Rating: StarStar
  • Release Date: September 09, 2008
  • Total Time: 0:00
  • Type: Children
  • Genre: Rock

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Since Kimya Dawson's adult albums are filled with cutesy-pie rhymes and schoolyard singalongs, it makes perfect sense that the singer/songwriter has given herself over to a full-on children's album. It also makes perfect sense that it's called Alphabutt, as Dawson has always shown a propensity for juvenile jokes, and that title should also be a tip-off that just about every other song on this 15-track LP sports a joke about farting. Kimya doesn't limit herself to farts: there's poop and pee, even references to growing hair "down there," all delivered with a child's fascination with discovering their body -- and sometimes delivered with a couple kids singing along, too. Such enthusiastic participation from a few tuneless kids highlights the fact that Dawson designed Alphabutt purely for young kids. These are not songs for the parents, nor are these tunes meant to educate or even entertain: these are the kinds of songs that kids chant in the backseat when they mean to annoy their parents. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

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Alphabutt
Studio album by Kimya Dawson
Released April 2007
Recorded February 2007 at Stupidio in San Francisco, California
Genre Alternative rock, Anti-folk Children's music
Label K Records
Producer Jason Carmer
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2.5/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars[2]

Alphabutt is an album by Kimya Dawson, recorded in February 2007. Kimya Dawson started recording a collection of songs for babies with Hidden Vagenda producer Jason Carmer. 10 songs have been done in this first recording session, 9 of which made it onto a self-released tour EP entitled Alphabutt E.Pee which was sold on Kimya's world tour in spring/summer 2007.[3]

Every copy of the EP was handcrafted and unique. It came in a hand-decorated folder of colored cardboard, held together by a string. The folder contained an Alphabutt CD-R, a handwritten fact sheet and nine sheets of drawings on pink paper - one for each song. The flipside of the folder reads "made with love at the great crap factory."

The Alphabutt sessions were completed on February 21, 2008, and the full album was released on K Records in September 2008.[citation needed] Against previous plans, the retail CD did not come with a children's book: "I decided to just release it as a cd, because then it will be out much faster. I am going to make a book for kids another time. It will take forever to get a book completed but the cd is so close to being done. It is a crazy album! I am really excited about it."[4]

Track listing

  1. "Little Monster Babies" – 1:26
  2. "Alphabutt" – 0:55
  3. "Bobby-O" – 1:50
  4. "Louie" - 2:13
  5. "Smoothie" – 2:12
  6. "I Like Bears" - 1:09
  7. "Seven Hungry Tigers" - 1:59
  8. "Happy Home (Keep On Writing)" - 3:34
  9. "Wiggle My Tooth" - 1:37
  10. "I Love You Sweet Baby" - 2:02
  11. "Pee-Pee in the Potty" – 0:29
  12. "Uncle Hukee's House" - 0:54
  13. "We're All Animals" - 2:22
  14. "Little Panda Bear" – 1:00
  15. "Sunbeams and Some Beans" – 3:45

All songs written by Kimya Dawson.

Personnel

  • Callidora Cadogan – kazoo, vocals
  • Kevin Cadogan – kazoo
  • Jason Carmer – bass, guitar, drums, vocals, handclapping, producer, engineer, rattle, audio production
  • Nico Carmer – drums, vocals, handclapping
  • Kimya Dawson – guitar, piano, kazoo, vocals, handclapping, producer, audio production
  • Erez Frank – vocals
  • Sofia Jeremias – vocals
  • Aki Mantia – piano
  • Brian "Brain" Mantia – drums, vocals
  • McAlister Shea – drums, vocals
  • Miles Milstead Murgia – drums
  • Panda Dawson-Duval – piano, vocals
  • Amani Shea – drums
  • Barbara Shipowo – vocals
  • Angelo Spencer – guitar, drums, vocals, wood block, blocks

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ Schmader, David (2008-01-30). "Interrogation: Kimya Dawson". The Stranger. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=496343. Retrieved 2008-04-26. 
  4. ^ Dawson, Kimya (2008-02-21). "Kimya Dawson's LiveJournal". http://users.livejournal.com/kimya_dawson_/280782.html. Retrieved 2008-04-26. 

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