JamiroFan2000
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 Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 19:13 |
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Brian Wilsonized Inspiration of The Boy Least Likely To!
 Hello,
 My exploits in finding more new worthwhile music has found yet another pair of new artists pushing up new ground from a classic influence, and from JK's backyard ! The new band is called "The Boy Least Likely To", and they hail from Buckinghamshire England, composed of young instrumentalist Pete Hobs and lead singer Jof Owen. They released their first self made album titled "The Best Party Ever" off Too Young To Die Records in 2005 to practically no bells and whistles. But in 2006, their Brian Wilson melange of unique uplifting music with childlike song names (The most charactistic one being titled "Warm Panda Cola"!) is sure to turn some heads and make them want to get on a hot air balloon and explore the snowy peaks of their debut. For the first time, in a LONG TIME, Rolling Stone has added a new section to their stagnant magazine highlighting new talent in the music scene, they posted in their latest issue a very nice write-up about "The Boy Least Likely To", and here is a cut n paste of it:
The Boy Least Likely To
Catchy cuddle-rock duo channels Brian Wilson, Winnie the Pooh I was hoping for it to become a lost classic," says The Boy Least Likely To singer Jof Owen of his band's debut album, The Best Party Ever. When it was first released in July 2005, the disc seemed destined for obscurity: Owen and multi-instrumentalist Pete Hobbs, two English lads from the countryside village of Wendover, recorded the album in Hobbs' bedroom, adding glockenspiel, recorder and accordion to Owen's deceptively childlike tunes about monsters, spiders and a Japanese beverage called Warm Panda Cola. But after they released the album through their Too Young to Die label, it became an indie hit in the U.K. -- and last fall James Blunt asked the duo to open for him in England. Now the band is supporting Blunt on an American tour.
SOUND The Best Party Ever is a homespun blend of tender country folk, Beach Boys melodies and ramshackle disco that sounds like Belle and Sebastian mucking about in the family rec room. Delicately ornamented valentines like "My Tiger My Heart" and the bouncy, banjo-laden "Be Gentle With Me" -- on which Owen sings, "If I wasn't so happy/I wouldn't be so scared of dying" -- elicit the heart-on-your-sleeve sadness of two of Owen's biggest lyrical influences: Winnie the Pooh and English poet and children's author Ted Hughes.
BACK IN THE DAY Hobbs and Owen met in their early teens and quickly became best friends. "We didn't drink or do anything rock & roll," Hobbs says. "Mainly we shopped for records." The pair would routinely scour "car boot" sales in the English countryside, where they scored cheap treasures like a set of Smash Hits! magazines from the early Eighties that introduced them to bands such as Orange Juice and the Smiths. That's also where they began to compile the unusual instruments they used on The Best Party Ever. "Every time a friend goes to Thailand or wherever," Owen says, "they'll come back and say, 'I bought you this: It's an elephant, and if you scrape its back it sounds like a frog.' We're like, 'Oh, great! We'll use that on the next record.' "
STAYING CONNECTED Owen's blog (theboyleastlikelyto.blog spirit.com) began as a chronicle of his daily life but has since morphed into a forum for Owen to sound off on everything from rock journalists to the new Jenny Lewis record. "When I found out that 3,000 people a week were reading it, I couldn't just talk about the new pub down the block," Owen says. "It's mostly about what I'm listening to at the moment, which is anything strange and wonderful."
BUBBLING UNDER Onstage, Owen and Hobbs are assisted by five friends, who handle keyboard, bass and drums and also work the band's prized bubble machine. The crew's oddball appearance caused a minor stir when they opened for Blunt last fall. "When we first came on, his fans were saying, 'What the hell is this?' " Owen says. "But by the end of the show they were singing along."
Next: Rock Kills Kid
CHRISTIAN HOARD
There you go, if you would like to check out their "childproof" Official Site with some GREAT audio clips from their debut album, check it out here:
THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO OFFICIAL SITE:
 http://www.theboyleastlikelyto.co.uk/
If you dig their sound, pick up their AWESOME debut album, "The Best Party Ever" NOW! Thanks for listening, enjoy this new artist and Peace!
Sincerely,
JamiroFan2000
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