Beck. Eels. Badly Drawn Boy. The Irish-born Simple Kid (a.k.a. Ciaran MacFeely)
falls comfortably into that same musical mindset, embracing a charming
variety of instruments (banjo, laptop) and genres (back-porch country,
lo-fi pop). On the woozy folk ballad ''Serotonin,'' MacFeely's aesthetic
comes together gorgeously; on ''The Ballad of Elton John,'' however, the
jaunty melody is marred by his Simple lyrics (calling celebs ''wankers''
isn't exactly trenchant criticism). Still, the Kid — artful and a little
bit goofy — is more than alright on 2. B
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