From Cardiff with love comes the latest ditty from the merry pop folkie Euros Childs. On "Ali Day" he channels oodles of sunshine and skipping into two tight minutes for a swift burst of twee goodness. Centered around the full-bodied piano low-end featured on Sufjan Stevens' indie-classic Illinois, "Day" also plays on the same youthful purity invoked by the Boy Least Likely To's most bubbly numbers. After a Welsh language experiment on his last full-length Bore Da, the former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci frontman is back to singing in English over playful psychedelic folk not far from his mid-'90s output.
With the same lover's ecstasy as Lennon's "Oh Yoko", Childs' "Ali Day" would not be out of place on a Wes Anderson soundtrack between Cat Stevens and the Kinks should the quirky auteur ever hope to elicit a quick smile. With good humor, Childs warns that "if you bounce a ball against a wall, one day that ball might not come back at all," but fortunately it'd take a lot more than a lost ball to rid his songs of their own trademark bounce. Euros Childs' The Miracle Inn lands in the U.S. Oct. 23 via Wichita Recordings.
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Euros Childs - "Ali Day"
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