Hey everybody!  Guess what?  Your friendly neighborhood Brobots! (form of Raliegh Fingers!) are DJ-ing the record release party for hometown heroes Hands and Knees.  Their album “Et Tu, Fluffy” (Midriff Records) is out just in time for the great weather here in the Northeast.

There are many great musical comparisons that could be made to describe this album (Pixies, My Morning Jacket, Tegan & Sara, Violent Femmes) but i don’t think that does these guys justice.  It never feels like they are directly imitating a style and, even though it’s there first album, it always sounds like a Hands and Knees album.

The thing that stands out about this album, oddly, is fun.  It genuinely sounds like they are having fun making music (and making fun music), which shouldn’t be something that stands out on a modern album (what could be more fun than making music for a living) but it does.   To borrow their phrase “they’ve got pop, they’ve got style”…and again - hand claps, c’mon!

So, come on out and show your support.  We’ll be at River Gods in Cambridge tonight starting at 9.  They’ll also be playing a record release show at Great Scott in Allston on Thursday (4/30)

I wanted to start out with an sweet old nugget in the rough, but it’s starting to turn to spring here in the northeast.  You know, the time when a young man’s fancy turns to hip hop.  Flowers are bloomin’,  beats are boomin’, diamond in the back, sun roof top, etc…So though this isn’t a revelation to the blogosphere, it is relative to what i want to hear.

Mash-up?  MCs over Sufjan Stevens?  Tantalized yet?  No?  Click play and take a drive in your mind down the freestyle freeway.  By the way, it’s free.  Grab the whole album here.

And don’t worry, I’ll be sweatin to the oldies soon enough!