Thursday, April 1, 2010

Record Review: Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family - Good Children Go To Heaven


A damn treatise I wrote on Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family for Tiny Mix Tapes:

Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family
Good Children Go To Heaven

[Third Side; 2010]

Full disclosure: I’ve played the flute for 13 years, and despite the existence of mainstream rock acts like Jethro Tull (stop with the Jethro Tull jokes, already!), I’ve always felt that in my favorite musical genres — punk, art pop, lo-fi — it’s been a seriously underrepresented instrument. It’s just not cool enough, maybe. So when I heard that the first notes of Good Children Go To Heaven, the debut LP from French group Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family (a group that, it should be noted, has no tropical tendencies of any kind), were part of a well-performed flute cadenza, I was more than a little excited. Once a band nerd, always a band nerd, I guess. Sorry...[Read more]

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