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Lunch Money: It Feels Like Love

J. Day | New York | 03/21/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There are so many things I love about Lunch Money. Each song on the albums Silly Reflection and Dizzy feels like a beloved friend, all with their own personalities. The music travels from style to style, hitting all the best parts in danceworthy rock, jazz vocals, punk, and quiet, contemplative, putting-your-life-to-a-soundtrack languour. My almost-two-year-old son and I have great fun singing and moving to it. As if the music itself weren't enough of a treat, Molly Ledford's lyrics are the most delicate poetry that manages to take its place in our daily lives rather than remain in a yellowed volume somewhere. She bemusedly investigates language ("do you go bananas? or do you go pears?"); pop culture ("keep on truckin'",dinosaurs on pajamas); childhood ephemera that nevertheless becomes the most long-lived mythology in an adult life (dropping Barbie shoes down the register, taming a balloon, sheets so old they feel like silk); and the secret thoughts and associations of a child that are the best stuff, in fact, of poetry (the wonder of an umbrella, reading that "feels like love"). Thanks for sending one of the wayward balloons to the Empire State, Molly!

Lunch Money makes children's music not by condescending in an adult's conception of a child's "gibberish," but by talking to a child in his/her own language and perspective. That makes this music fun and relevant for a child who sings along. And when it's done right, as it is here, how absolutely renewing, inspiring, and luminous it is for the adult who listens with love, chin propped on palm."

NPR is fair in their review.

L. Tang | 03/08/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"refreshing to kids and tolerable to parents (fairly enjoyable to me).



I believe the album jumped from nowhere to #103 on March 7th 2009 and further up to #61 on the 8th is largely due to NPR All Things Considered favorable review this past Friday, the 6th. I enjoy it myself, so does my son. This is just a great idea appreciated by a lot of people. Well done, Lunch Money! Well done, Stefan Shepherd!

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