On Little Kid’s new album, A Million Easy Payments, the urgency in Kenny Boothby’s voice matches the stakes of his lyrics, epic ballads and reveries that come at life from all angles and exposures, driving at and a little over the limits of self-reflection. The band’s lilting folk-rock arrangements carry Boothby’s stories, occasionally lifting them skyward with flurries of cello samples, pedal steel, flute, & electric piano. It’s a record of depression and frustration that doesn’t stew in piety or aestheticize pain, that also explodes with life. Fragile and abundant. It’s a record with blood in its veins.
released February 23, 2024 on Orindal Records & Gold Day.
recorded slowly from november 2019 - february 2023
in toronto, ON at the second pharmacy
in london, ON at the sugar shack
in etobicoke, ON at cherry jam
in our homes in toronto, ON, kingston, ON, london, UK, and london, ON
and in someone else's home in kimberley, ON
recorded, mixed, and mastered by paul vroom
lyrics by kenny boothby
music by little kid
little kid is kenny boothby, brodie germain, paul vroom, liam cole, & megan lunn
with: aaron powell - vocals (2), eliza niemi - cello (4,8) and cello sample (2), anh phung - flute (3), seth engel - bongos (3), peter gill - pedal steel (8)
cover painting & design by james lee chiahan – ravine photo by aisha ghali