Music Monday

Here’s a song I’ve been enjoying lately. I’ve also heard it used in a few commercials recently. Which triggered me revisiting the album and also now I am sharing the song with all of you lucky folk.

Enjoy™

More About Peter Bjorn and John (PB&J)

“Gimme Some has been spun as a return to the band’s sunnier, more winning sound, but it too often fails to reproduce Writer’s Block’s unexpected spark. The band seems to acknowledge as much on lead single “Second Chance”. Over claps and cowbell, Peter Morén coos in his slightly mushy, softly accented voice, “You can’t can’t count on the second try/ The second try is such a comedown.” It may be an apt sentiment, but the song feels intent on proving the point via its own limpness. By far the most galling thing here, though, is is the cruise-ship conga-line leading “Dig a Little Deeper”, with its sing-song “oh-oh!”s and the dull semantic argument of its chorus: “All art has been contemporary.”

— Pitchfork’s album review of Peter Bjorn and John: Gimme Some