Blog: Aural Enjoyment

Emanuel Lundgren and the other 4,386 members of I'm From Barcelona are back with a new album and a new label (Mute), the follow up to 2006's Let Me Introduce My Friends . Unfortunately, it seems as if their goal on Houdini is to alienate all those twee pop-loving, gang vocal-enthusiast friends. Where the over-the-top cuteness and songs about chicken pox, sleeping in on Mondays/pretending it was Sunday, and building treehouses was their bread and butter on Friends; Houdini functions as the angry parent calling for their kids to stop playing and wash up before [...]