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Two years ago, New Yorker Nellie McKay startled rock fans with an act that combined Peggy Lee and the smartest girl in English class, dropping a double album of piano pop that skewered everything from meat eaters to pretentious friends. Pretty Little Head, another double album, is quieter and less snarky but nearly as fun. McKay channels her wit and near-virtuosic command of pre-rock pop on jazz-tinged protest songs and killer faux-Broadway singalongs like "Cupcake," about a disco dancer trying to talk his gay lover into marriage. McKay's ballads are just as well-formed, especially "Long and Lazy River," which sounds like a lost Doris Day classic. Who knew that your grandparents' record collection could produce something so sassy?
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Track List
- Cupcake
- Pink Chandelier
- There You Are In Me
- Yodel
- Big One, The
- G.E.S.
- I Will Be There
- The Down Low
- Long Lazy Summer
- I Am Nothing
- BeeCharmer
- Swept Away
- Real Life
- Tipperary
- Gladd
- Food
- We Had It Right
- Columbia Is Bleeding
- Lali Est Parisseux
- Happy Flower
- Mama & Me
- Pounce
- Old Enough
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