The Boy Least Likely To
U.K. duothe Boy Least Likely To was one of the freshest and most exciting indie pop groups to surface in the mid-decade. The group is made up of singer/lyricist Jof Owen and Pete Hobbs. Owen writes the words and sings them; Hobbs writes the music and plays it. Formed in the English countryside (specifically Wendover), the Boy Least Likely To is influenced by country storytellers like Marty Robbins, C-86 indie pop groups like the Pastels and Television Personalities, and turn-of-the-century pop groups like Belle & Sebastian and {$Kenick...[more]
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The Best Party Ever, compiles the first three singles plus five new tracks from this UK-based The Boy Least Likely To. This duo contains a wealth of musical influences and history, to begin with there band name comes from a Morrissey song-title, and there sound rings of many greats from Brian Wilson to Belle and Sebastian to Wilco. However serious their influences might be The Boy Least Likely To bundle all this with a great since of humor and an odd variety of instruments and sounds such as recorde [ read more ]
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Order The Law Of The Playground and receive bonus MP3 "Grown Ups Lie" immediately at check-out! Insound Staff Pick - 2009! The Law Of The Playground serves as the follow-up to The Boy Least Likely To's widely adored 2006 debut The Best Party Ever. The Law Of The Playground is another delightful slice of quintessential British pop music--equal parts melancholy and joyful exuberance, sometimes at the same time!
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That dreaded second album. Do you try to recapture the sound and feeling of the first record, which almost never works, or do you try to move ahead to something entirely new? The Boy Least Likely To take the former route on their sophomore album, The Law of the Playground, and for the most part it works out pretty well. It doesn't reach the same giddy heights as their debut, The Best Party Ever, but that would have been a lot to ask. That record's wonderfully innocent blend of indie pop sweetness, [ read more ]
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