Gather ’round children, and I will spin you a gruesome tale of horror and subversion. Your parents have been conspiring to make you listen to their old music. For example, on this new Imagination Movers recording Blue Skies, your parents will play it for you, and you will be sucked into these tunes that stay in your head all day with lyrics that sound like you wrote them about real events, like going on a road trip, or eating an ice cream sandwich, or even dreams you have about flying around with jet packs. But don’t be fooled! It’s just their way of forcing you to listen to it and like their music.

When you hear these songs, and then your mom mentions how these songs such as the one about racing rubber duckies have that great “new wave sound” or that song about the smashed banana in your ear (yuck!) has a great “ska” sound (whatever that means? LOL), look out. Then they’ll start shaking their behinds to the bananaphone song and calling it “funk?” (isn’t that a dirty word?). Or they’ll say how the breezy Caribbean pop of “Cuckoo Bird” reminds them of what they heard when they were kids. Beware! Beware! No matter how good this Imagination Movers record sounds, they are trying to get you to listen to their old music. Don’t do it. Now go away and listen to those Taylor Sabrina Rodrigo ballads while I school your parents on why they shouldn’t be making you listen to this.

Now that they’re gone, parents, this is a great record that kids will really like with catchy melodies, down-to-earth, fun lyrics and musical styles that reach from ’90s ska, ’80s new wave, and 2000s power pop that will make you be able to listen to them when Little Johnny Jr. whines to hear the “Ice Cream Sandwich” song for the 162nd time that day.