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Peach Kelli Pop Takes A 'Hello Kitty Knife' To Sad, Old Critics Of Girlhood

Los Angeles sparkle punks Peach Kelli Pop depart from their traditional surf-pop sound in favor of the rainbow-filled aesthetics of childhood.
<em>Gentle Leader </em>is Peach Kelli Pop's fourth album, co-produced by Allie Hanlon with engineer Roland Cosio.

It would be easy to call Peach Kelli Pop's bright and frenetic music bubblegum or twee, but it would also be wrong. To refer to a song like "Hello Kitty Knife" is at once a more maturely written song than previous work and a return to childhood.

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