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Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous

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Review from Pitchfork:

"Lullatone papier-mâché the    childlike sounds of bell-tone synths and toy glockenspiel into imaginative,    minimalist pop.Gentle sine waves bounce repetitively throughout sleepy-eyed opener"Good Morning Melody" and yawning synth exercise "Magical...", driftingacross unhurried rhythms. It's as if they might evaporate altogetherwhen you open your eyes. Eight-minute finale "Floating Away", with anideal beat for a slumberland discotheque, uses stereo trickery tocreate the illusion that reclining headphone listeners are beginning tohover. But then, the defining sensation of Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous is weightlessness.    Nonetheless, Lullatone can't neatly be filed alongside such kinder-pop acts    as the Boy Least Likely To or Architecture in Helsinki. Plays Pajama Pop    Pour Vous is interested not so much in being cute as in being cute majestically.    Ukulele-driven "Bedroom Bossa Nova" exalts its simple melody and    lyrics by letting us gaze at them from a sweeping vista of tropicalia, toy    drums, and meticulously breezy production. The glistening harp loops of    "Sleepytime Samba" spread out beneath warm beeps and blips with the    fragile grandeur of Múm. OK, whistle-led "Pajama Party Pop" could    almost be Hot Chip for the seventh-birthday crowd. So cute.         At the same time, Lullatone's latest represents a progression for the duo.    Little by little, their project has become more organic as well as more    indebted to Tomida's girlish vocals, which feature on each of the new album's    eight tracks. Where 2003 debut Computer Recital sought simple beauty in    abstract electronics, Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous finds the abstract in    beautifully simple songs. These days Lullatone overload on aesthetic traits    frequently viewed as puerile, and they find in them something transcendent. In    the world of Seymour and Tomida, cuteness is merely beauty of another kind."
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