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By Warren Truitt, About.com Guide to Children's Music

Recite the Alphabutt with Kimya!

Tuesday August 26, 2008

Anti-folk darling Kimya Dawson, one half of The Moldy Peaches, is releasing her first kids' album on September 9, 2008. Alphabutt will be Dawson's first musical outing since her surprising success with the Juno movie soundtrack.

Inspired by her daughter Panda Delilah's birth in 2006 (yep, Panda), Dawson recorded over a dozen short, silly, sweet songs about everything baby/toddler related: eating, playing, pooping, singing, farting, loving and being loved.

If scatological tunes scare you, if you don't like unconventional song structures, or if free-form recording techniques offend your ears, you might want to stick to The Wiggles. If you give Alphabutt a chance, though, you'll find something funny and precious in all of Dawson's songs.

Kids are gonna absolutely love the tracks "Alphabutt," "I Like Bears," and "Seven Hungry Tigers," while the 30-second-long a cappella track "Pee-Pee in the Potty" is a toddler anthem waiting to happen. If Dawson ever makes videos of "Wiggle My Tooth" and the doggie bio "Louie," children's networks would be crazy not to add them to their regular rotation.

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