Artist: Lunch Money
Album: Spicy Kid
Description: "If Spicy Kid works in a slightly minor key, less a celebration of parenthood than a diary, that doesn't mean it's less joyful than any of its predecessors, and fans (or fans-to-be) of those predecessors should be every bit as enamored of this new album." (From the 2012 album review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Mister G
Album: Bugs
Description: As I described it in my review, the 2011 album from the Massachusetts-based Mister G is multi-lingual and a "slick set of tracks that, save for the topics and lyrics (very much for the second grader in your life), in many cases (e.g., "Friends" or "Snow Day") would sound appropriate on your local AAA station."
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Alastair Moock
Album: These Are My Friends
Description: Released in mid-2011, Moock's album of "fresh folk for fresh folk," as I called it in my album review, still holds up. Moock can be a modern Guthrie of sorts, with better production to boot.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Cat Doorman
Album: The Cat Doorman Songbook
Description: Cat Doorman is the alter ego of Portland, Oregon musician and artist Julianna Bright, and this, her debut kids music album full of DIY spunk takes this year's slot for "album most unlike any other kids album you'll hear all year." As I said in my album review, "It's possible that if Cat Doorman Songbook didn't exist, Etsy would have had to create it."
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band
Album: ¡Fantastico!
Description: Los Angeles-based Diaz reworks some of his biggest (English-language) pop confections into (Spanish-language) pop confections. At 22 minutes, it's as much a long EP as a short album, but worth checking out if you're not already a big fan of Diaz' work.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Album: Live From Brooklyn
Description: Recorded live in 2011 shortly after the release of his fine Love Me For Who I Am album, this newly-released EP captures the roots-rocking' band sounding in fine form. (Review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Vered
Album: Good Morning My Love (Sampler)
Description: Four songs from the New York singer's first album for families -- really, for new parents and their babies. Simple but not simplistic melodies and lyrics; Vered's biggest hope would be that you'd sing along with your baby nearby.
Source: Bandcamp
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