The Weepies are Deb Talan and Steven Tannen, a happily married couple with a baby boy who jump at every chance they get to tell the world just how happy they are together. It’s adorable. It’s cute. As are the songs on “Hideaway”. Gently strummed folkpop songs that slide in your ear so smoothly you don’t even notice them at first. But then you realize that the melodies are stuck in your head along with the quirky harmonies.
This couple might not be as weird or eccentric as The Moldy Peaches but they are definitely from the same neighbourhood. Only difference is that The Weepies might live together in suburban bliss while the Peaches get together somewhere in a seedy alley just around the corner.
The only song that didn’t appeal to me was “All Good Things”, which as it turns out is something they re-used from when they were writing songs with Mandy Moore for her album “Wild Hope”. Glad to see I’m still able to point out shit from a mile away. None of the songs on here are edgy or even close to dangerous. They are just so damn cute even corporate America embraced the couple which led to Old Navy and JC Penney using their songs in commercials!
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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