The Boy Least Likely To reached a certain level of fame in the ’00s on the strength of their debut album The Best Party Ever and the singles “Paper Cuts” and “Be Gentle With Me” (the video for which featured a young Rashida Jones). They soon became the best known example of a genre of [...]

‘Tis the season for Christmas-related songs, guys. Last year the Boy Least Likely To gave us “The First Snowflake.” Now the duo’s gathered that song and ten others into a full-length collection of twee Christmas tunes. As you’d guess from their past albums, the holidays are made for wistful refle...

Just when you thought the Boy Least Likely To couldn't be any more twee. The Jayne Vidheecharoen directed video for "When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade" is so sweet as fuck it almost hurts. A little knitted bird puppet with button eyes makes friends with a cute apple with eyes the same, and after they meet some mean looking lemons the bir...

English twee-pop band follows its 2005 debut, The Best Party Ever, with another collection of anorak pop, sunny West Coast harmonies, Belle and Sebastian-y folk, country, and soul.read more

Carefree days feel more and more distant with each skim of the ol' RSS reader, and The Boy Least Likely To's happy-sad twee-pop aches all the better for it. The UK duo of Pete Hobbs and Jof Owen can be seen scampering around a field and cruising in goofy vehicles in the video for latest single "A Balloon on a Broken String", from upcoming The Be...