Much like the title implies, Ear Snacks <\/i>compiles the best selections from the first season’s podcast run by the Los Angeles husband and wife duo of Andrew & Polly. Pulling from over seven hours of podcasting, the genre-skipping pair assembles a greatest hits sort of listen \u2013 with plenty of emphasis on the great. <\/p>\n
\u201cDancing Pants\u201d starts off the album and it’s just that: a danceable fun time with horns and dual gender vocals that features Mista Cookie Jar. \u201cBallphabet\u201d is the next full song, with a call and response approach about various activities involving balls set to a quirky pop template. \u201cGrapes,\u201d guided by Polly, mixes spoken word and singing to tell an infectious story about eating grapes that again is quirky, fun, and impossible not to smile while listening to. \u201cTiny Dino\u201d is softer and acoustic, but gets a little louder when discussing the dinosaur roaring, while the key and horn heavy \u201cMail\u201d reminds us to check our mail daily, since we might have a letter from Michelle Obama. <\/p>\n
The second half of the album leads off with the album highlight \u201cHow Do You Know If It’s Going To Rain,\u201d a sweet and soft acoustic strummer with Polly’s soulful vocals. \u201cEverybody Hat Hat\u201d is probably the most overtly kid’s song, with its simple lyrics about hats and accompanying noises to each topic. And of course there’s an animal song \u2013 \u201cI Wanna Be A Giraffe\u201d \u2013 though it sounds more like an indie-pop anthem about self-empowerment. \u201cExpo Song\u201d is the country tune with harmonica and violins, and this theme continues into the lush folk-pop of \u201cHey Hat.\u201d The album closes with the Laurie Berkner influenced \u201cWhy Is Fruit Fruit?,\u201d an acoustic sing-a-long that’s pleasant to the ears of any age. <\/p>\n
Though the album is geared towards those under the age of 12 and even comes with a 20 page ‘Snacktivity’ booklet, there’s maturity to the musicianship here that will appeal to any adult. It’s no surprise that Andrew & Polly’s podcast has become so popular, as the two clearly have a knack for creating a good time for anyone entering their orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9984],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44896","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-andrew-polly","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44896"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}