The Twee-est Band of 2007: My Little Airport
January 16th, 2008 | 2:50 pm est |
Hey there, twee lovers! Now that we have cleared out everyone but the truly twee at heart, let’s break out the lollipops and get down to business. There were many contenders for the Twee-est Band of the Year honors this year but the clear winner is My Little Airport. The duo from Hong Kong (P & Nicole) run through all the hallmarks of the twee pop sound (cute-as-pie childlike vocals, simple melodies, clunky drum machines, rudimentary guitars and twinkly bells) in fine fashion on their debut album for Elefant, Zoo is Sad, People are Cruel, but one look at the song titles is enough to see that there is something special going on here. “Mountaintop, Doll, Lollypop”, “My Little Banana”, “You Don’t Want to Be My Girlfriend, Phoebe”…all classically twee titles with deliciously candy-coated songs to go with them; “When I Listen to the Field Mice” is even a heart-tuggingly sweet moment of meta-pop genius. My Little Airport are too cute, too twee, 100% ridiculous and their album is pretty much the silliest thing you’ll ever hear. For these reasons, they’re the Twee-est Band of 2007. (”When I Listen to the Field Mice” 
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Other significant twee-chievements in 2007:
– Fishboy’s amazing, the-Who-in-a-teacup, twee pop opera called Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State With the Power of Rock and Roll. (”Taqueria Girl” )
– Minty Fresh’s reissue of White Shoes & The Couples Company’s album. (”Sunday Memory Lane” )
– The return of Club 8. The songs of restrained, twee melancholy that make up The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Dreaming are some of the best of their long and pretty glorious career. (”When I Come Around” )
– The Owls gave the adult twee pop lover something to keep them warm at night with their lovely album Daughters and Sons. (”Peppermint Patty” )
“The duo from Japan (P & Nicole)”???? r u kidding me? they are from Hong Kong, not Japan. Also, Zoo is Sad, People are Cruel is NOT their debut album, their fist album is “Walk in The Zoo Is a Decent Thing”,released in 08/07/2004 by Harbour Records. Do your homework next time before you publish an article.
thanks for the friendly tip. i was too blinded by their twee-normity to get the facts straight.
Their “fist album?” Hey, Do Your Homework — you should probably Do Your Spellchecking before publishing a comment.
tim, you’re a cool guy, taking that high tweeway in the sky.
anyway, it’s nice to see hongkong indie music in amg blog. my little airport is indeed a very wonderful group. i’m expecting more chinese music here in the future. it’s nice to try something different sometimes.
“zoo is sad, people are cruel”is their first album for elephant,but not their debut album
I liked my little airport real well before I left for the HK metropolitan area; unfortunately, they seem to have been on a rockin’ hiatus for the past three months and I’m popstarved; anyone know any decent twee bands that ACTUALLY PLAY SHOWS in and around Guangdong province?
I love that this article showed up almost ten weeks after I mentioned them in the November deliberations newsletter. I wonder if that means that Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch will pop up as the Album of the day in two months?
Bite my shiny metal ass, assholes, you were joked!
Sounds like a nice fun CD. Vocals need to be produced a little better on most of the tracks. They are very uninspired.