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Album Of The Week: Let’s Eat Grandma I’m All Ears

1:05 PM EDT on June 26, 2018

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They're kids! That was the general tenor of the discussion around the UK duo Let's Eat Grandma two years ago, when they released their debut album I, Gemini. Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth met each other in a kindergarten art class in their shared hometown of Norwich, and they've been best friends and collaborators ever since. They were both teenagers when they released I, Gemini, an album that sounded like what happens when two kids build their own dreamworld and get lost in it. There was something charming and intuitive about that album's gauzy psychedelic swirl, even if it still showed plenty of bad ideas. (There was a part where they both rapped.) The general consensus, at least if I'm remembering it right, was that Let's Eat Grandma had come up with an impressive, promising debut, especially for an album made by a couple of teenagers. But there's a problem with that formulation. Because Walton and Hollingworth are still both teenagers now, and yet they're kids! is an entirely insufficient way to frame I'm All Ears, their new album.