What’s the Story?

Overly synthesized and carelessly produced, BRAINCANDY: MY 5 SENSES is a forgettable project that bills itself as "A Yummy Music & Sound Exploration." Instead, it's a lackluster collection of 20 songs aching for cleverness, focus, and fun. A chorus of little kids' voices tries gamely to blend with mechanical-sounding rhythm tracks, pedestrian guitar playing, and derivative arrangements that drift around without ever really getting anywhere.

Is It Any Good?

Without the visual backup from the DVD series, My 5 Senses is unable to attract or hold the listener's attention. And it doesn't help that the producers' earnest good intentions seem to get in the way of anybody ever expressing an original musical idea -- or having any fun. The CD insert boasts that "Braincandy cares about helping give children a healthy world to grow up in. That's why the packaging is made with soy-based inks and 30 percent post-consumer recycled material." If only the songs didn't sound so recycled, we might have something here.

Have you heard it?

Music Details

Artist

Braincandy

Genre

Children's Music

Label

Rhino Records

Parental advisory

No

Edited version
available

No

Release date

7/15/2006

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