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The Lovely Eggs, If You Were Fruit

review by dave heaton

The line between performance art/freefrom experimentation and children exercising their imaginations through play is a fine one. Where it blurs is where the Lovely Eggs fit in, especially if you throw in a dose of Beat Happening’s amateur-isms (and their childlike and sexual qualities), Kimya Dawson’s homegrown folksy spin on the same, a hearty dose of pranksterism, and a willingness to ride musical tides on a whim, stealing familiar riffs or shifting into other styles as it suits them. Mainly, though, what we have here are pop songs riddled with the innate creative instincts of children: rhymes, riddles, storybook fables, word games, animals, fruit and nonsense. The best songs turn games into brilliant jokes (“Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordion?”), sublime philosophical studies (“Oh the Stars”) or litanies of items from the world around us. The Lovely Eggs ask the musical question, “what’s more punk than play?”

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