Indie Music Chatter

Call me a scheming dad but I take a very serious interest in how my son will develop his music taste. My wife loves to tell people that one of my biggest fears is that Zach will grow up liking the kind of trash that bombards almost all radio stations. I’ve been labelled a music snob but I really don’t care about the name calling. All of the insults are worth it if I can ensure that my son will grow up with a sophisticated ear and an inherent love for music that really counts. No Britneys or Rihannas for me and my son, thank you.

One way that I am laying the foundation of his early music education is by playing him lullabies when he’s asleep. But forget the tired Sesame Street or Barney lullabies, I’m into something a little less mainstream.

In my lullaby arsenal are the three albums of Lullatone. Over the course of four albums, Lullatone has managed to maintain an almost child like simplicity and beauty to its music but anchored on really heavy concepts. For example, while the first two albums dealt with sine wave harmonics in order to create deceptively simple soundscapes, Little Songs about Raindrops saw the band use toy instruments exclusively in creating an album that is beautiful beyond belief.

If you have children, please do them a favor and just use Lullatone’s albums as an early music education for your children. Believe me, you’ll thank me for it in the future.