The Blow
Paper Television
K Records 

Khaela Maricich!  You are making me blush!  Stop it!  I mean it!  How am I supposed to focus on my bloggings when a talented, attractive women is in my headphones singing funky electro-pop songs about sweaty bed sheets and various sexy time references?  I can’t handle this!

Your latest album Paper Television is like the siren’s call, luring unsuspecting mariners off their course.  It is also the most fun I have had all year listening to music.  There are upbeat French songs, funky dancefloor numbers, and layers upon layers of pent up sexual tension.  It’s an infectious monster that you just want to hug, hairy paws and all.

The first track and the record’s undeniable stand out is ‘Pile of Gold’, a 2 minute song about ladies’ bee-hinds.  Of course, you describe it much better, painting the exchange between sexes with simple economic principles. 

“All the girls are sitting on a pile of gold, and the boys, you know they want it/want it.  It’s economics/They want the warmth that we export.”

Seriously, Khaela.  Give yourself and your long haired side kick Jona Bechtolt a big pat on the back for crafting one of my favorite albums of 2006.  It’s short, it’s fun, it’s exactly what I need after months of listening to the same old, same old.

MP3s
Pile of Gold

Websites
http://www.theblow.us
http://www.myspace.com/theblowus
http://www.krecs.com