Kimya Dawson

After the praise for her contributions to the Juno soundtrack, Kimya Dawson continues on the toddler track with this offbeat album of children's music, a collection of potty jokes and doggie ditties down featuring the vocal help of cute tots, including her daughter Panda. Dawson is an oddball, sure, but her vulnerability and bluntness equal charm. If you don't want your little one singing "Z is for farts that smell like the zoo," then skip this, but if you want them to remember their ABCs, this will surely do the trick. Besides, what kid doesn't dig a little scatological humor?

Solo and as half of Moldy Peaches, Dawson has applied child-like wisdom and humor to
adult issues like crack, romantic love, and the Iraq war. So it makes peculiar sense that
she'd follow the freak success of the Juno soundtrack, which featured her on seven
tracks, with a set of genuine kids songs. (She also recently became a mom.) But by the time
she's halfway through the scatological title track — "C is for cat butt, D is for doo-... More >