Tag: Duplex

For the little ones with discriminating tastes comes Worser, a clever collection of tunes for budding indie kids and indeed, their parents’ inner children, too. This second album from Vancouverites Duplex! features a wide and varied array of topics, from same-sex divorcees to the origin of species to sweater-wearing canines, served up with a healthy dose of genre-hopping. There’s a twee-pop ode to an older brother, a faux-Rush rocker about the seven noble gasses, a jaunty psychedelic fuzz-pop song about popsicles, a cheery instructional about how to make a sandwich and a bittersweet piano ballad about the changing of the autumn leaves. Plenty of tongue-in-cheek humour and a solid assemblage of musical talent only enhance this little gem of a kids record, resulting in cute, compelling stuff that will manage to engage wandering attention spans without being condescending. Parents will be perfectly pleased and the wee hipsters will eat this up, they’ll love it so. (Mint Records, www.mintrecs.com) Tiff Bartel