Audio Dregs Records
2006
Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous
About This Album
Lullatone have always been cute, above all things, and their fourth album is easily their cutesiest yet. If you couldn't tell from the title's polyglot preciousness or the cover's construction paper cut-out pajama partier, Yoshimi Tomida's lispily whispered lyrics should leave little question. Her wake-up litany on opener "Good Morning Melody," which could be the world's mellowest alarm clock music, runs, in part: "it's time for you to get out of bed/splish-splash some water and comb your bed-head." This isn't children's music, per se (though children would probably enjoy it), nor is it twee in the typical sense of that tag (artwork parallels to the Boy Least Likely To notwithstanding). Indeed, it's not very far removed from the abstract IDM melodyscapes that Shawn James Seymour constructed on earlier Lullatone releases using battalions of bell-like toy instruments and flotillas of gently chiming sine waves; both strategies resurface here, with most tracks tending to favor one approach or the other. In particular, the stately eight-minute closer "Floating Away" recalls the slowly unfolding pure sound mini-epics of Little Songs About Raindrops, if perhaps even more cradle-friendly.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,5 and 8)

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