The Little Ones - 'Ordinary Song'

If there was ever a song to sum-up the wishful Californian Dream and deluded West Coast ideals, The Little Ones intend to flaunt it to the masses. On face value, ‘Ordinary Song’ is immediately endearing: brooding depictions of wanderlust are emoted over Shins-esque surf shack symbolism and a Happy Days theme of simplicity. However, it is these elements that can make the instantaneously likable so blatantly ironic, detestable and as damp as a moistened flannel. The Beach Boys lived the life and sang the songs when it meant something and we have felt sun-kissed ever since. ‘Ordinary Song’ is exactly what is says on the tin: generically bland pop loops that The Thrills would be proud of producing for the OC loving generation.

Released 28/01/08 on EMI.