Flying!

Recess Monkey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Recess Monkey
• ASIN: B0052Z8RQC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,391 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

If Seattle is the new bastion of kindie rockers, then the trio of elementary school teachers - Jack Forman, Daron Henry and Drew Holloway - are the city's breakout stars. --Time Magazine

There's no other band playing just for kids who's turned out as many great albums as Recess Monkey has over the past few years. --ZooGlobble

Product Description

Is it a bird? A plane!? FLYING! is the much anticipated seventh album from Recess Monkey, the nationally acclaimed Seattle band of three elementary school teachers... and their hand puppet band manager Mayor Monkey. In FLYING! the band explores the superheroics that permeate kids' lives everyday, from epic supertransformations with the help of dish-rag capes to the playground escapades that only 22 band aids can truly support. This eclectic, energetic collection of songs continues the genre-defining odyssey from the band that Time Magazine lauded for ''tight, smart, acclaimed original songs'' and People Magazine gave 4/4 stars. FLYING! is not to be missed!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Family togetherness August 8, 2011

By Karin Nyland

Format:Audio CD

We are huge Recess Monkey fans in our house as well as super hero fanatics. We looked forward to this cd for quite awhile before it's release. When we got the album it didn't disappoint. It is a little slower paced than Final Funktier which makes it nice music to have on during dinner. Both my kids love the songs and even my 15 month old tries to sing along. Great family music that we all enjoy and can dance and sing to is definitely a value for the price.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Brilliance is in the Details August 8, 2011

By Jeff Bogle

Format:Audio CD

Welcome to kid's music in the 21st century. For the uninitiated, Recess Monkey can serve as the ideal gateway to a vibrant world of music unlike anything you thought possible in the children's genre. The brilliance of these veterans (Flying! is the Seattle trio's 7th album in 7 years) is in the details: the nuance of a complicated sibling relationship (the doo-wop jam "Bunkbed"), the benefit of having a partner in fighting "grownup tyranny" ("Invisible Friend", a duet with Lunch Money's forever-charming frontwoman Molly Ledford), and the joy of transforming your stuffed animal collection into your own personal Justice League of heroes ("Super Stuffies"). Add to that clever songs about the world's greatest breakfast food, a toddler's Band-Aid addiction, and one sung from the point of view of your child's favorite book, and you get a modern kiddie classic that any child age 3-9 will love dancing to, yes, but also will love exploring the piano, big brass, and banjo flourishes sprinkled throughout.

Kid's music doesn't suck. Recess Monkey are one of the bands that prove this year in and year out.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars So much fun for kids AND parents August 8, 2011

By K. Pelland

Format:Audio CD

Recess Monkey is truly the perfect band for preschoolers and grade school kids! Their music is fun, infectious and makes the kids want to move and sing along! Even better are the lyrics which are clever, intelligent and funny. Each of Recess Monkey's CD's have been wonderful, but flying is now one of my kids' all time favorites--they can't listen to it enough, and it doesn't get old for us either, we find ourselves singing along just as much as the kids do. Best money ever spent!