Smoosh - She Like Electric

Two girls, one on keyboards and vocals and the other on drums, banging out cute, quirky indie-pop; 15 songs in 35 minutes...exactly my thing, right? Right - and it's actually completely incidental that the band members (also songwriters) were, if I have this right, 12 and 10 years old respectively when this album was recorded, though their youth may account for the off-the-wall originality of a lot of the record. They're at their best with the relatively straight-up piano pop numbers - "Massive Cure", "It's Cold" and "To Walk Away From" are particularly good - and the main missteps are on overly goofy, childish moments like the rap of "Rad", with its "uh huh, uh huh, yo, yo" refrain.