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Snacktime
Desperation, $14.
Barenaked Ladies have long specialized in making kid music for grown-ups. Sure, their content may be about mature stuff, but their songs have a delirious concentration of crack-up funny lyrics and catchy-as-hell, resistance-is-futile melodies. Thus the new Snacktime—BNL’s first album created intentionally for children—is their most appealing record: Kids’ll dig it because it’s a great disc, period, and their hipster ’rents won’t feel dumb clapping and chuckling along since, you know, it was made for kids, dude.
Always gifted at tweaking funny bones, BNL is the only band who could write “Eraser,” which squeezes gospel flourishes and a Queen tribute into a two-and-a-half-minute operatic ode to that rubber thing at the end of pencils. Another bull’s-eye is the title track: Over a breezy melody, the band’s friends and family introduce themselves and state their favorite treats—a reminder that happiness lies in life’s simple pleasures. It might even make you cry.
—Smith Galtney
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