Artist: Birdie's Playhouse
Album: Move Like An Animal
Description: Latin-inflected grooves backing up stories about the natural world. If you listen to just one song, make it "Snail Cha Cha," featuring some kindie guest stars. Oh, and if you'd rather go all the way in listening in Spanish, the Los Angeles-based Birdie has you covered with Muévete Como Los Animales.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Helen Austin
Album: Always Be a Unicorn
Description: As I said in my album review of the kids music debut from the British Columbia-based songwriter, "it's gentle but occasionally exuberant and anchored by Austin's warm songwriting and clear, distinctive voice."
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Recess Monkey
Album: Deep Sea Diver
Description: All the qualities that have endeared Recess Monkey to thousands of families nationally from their Pacific Northwest perch are in ample display on their ninth album - humor (the wry look at those scavenging birds in the mellow Beatles-esque "Seagull" or the punny title of "Choral Reef"), kid-focused topics (disco-dancing with "Walkie Talkies" and complaining about being short in "Shrimp"), and, yes, hooks galore. (Full review)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Mike Park
Album: Smile
Description: One of my favorite debut kids music albums of 2011, Smile is the first effort at kids music from punk music stalwart Park targeted right at the preschool set. If you're not a punk music fan, don't be put off by the phrase "punk music stalwart," it's really for all ears.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Alastair Moock
Album: A Cow Says Moock
Description: A solid debut kids music album from the Massachusetts-based folk-singer-songwriter, drawing on the same Woody Guthrie-inspired well he used to even better effect on the follow-up These Are My Friends. Which isn't to say I didn't like this album (standouts include "A Cow Says Moo" and "Two Mommies"), just that if you like this, make sure to check out the follow-up.
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke
Album: Pleased To Meet You
Description: No, I don't have an embedded link, but just click on the Soundcloud link below and hear the album I called "fabulous, an energetic blend of Americana and punk, of empathy and third-grade snark." (Review)
Source: Soundcloud
Artist: Lunch Money
Album: Silly Reflection
Description: The late-2004 debut from the South Carolina trio (now quartet) is "22 minutes long... [and] short but sweet -- there isn't a bad song on the album." (From my album review.)
Source: Bandcamp
Artist: Lunch Money
Album: Dizzy
Description: "'Kids' music parents will love' is a tired cliche and often constitutes false advertising. But, as with great children's books that adults delight in reading, albums like Dizzy show that it's possible to make music that engages everyone who has a little kid in the house, or a little kid inside himself." (From my NPR review.)
Source: Bandcamp
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