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BOY - Mutual Friends - Music Head - 01-03-2013 online listen says 2011 but just now on US release list Tegan and Sara type of thing I guess billed as a duo but I rarely hear the other voice a couple I liked but I think the clip is the single 1.5 from me and a converted 2.4 from allmusic from the album - Little Numbers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyjS_vJfkw released Feb 26th, 2013 Bio - from allmusic Female singer/songwriter duo BOY are based in Hamburg, Germany. Singer Valeska Steiner (who is originally from Zurich, Switzerland) and musician Sonja Glass met in 2005 at Hamburg's Hochschule für Musik und Theater (University of Music and Theater) and formed the band in 2007. After playing numerous concerts, the group was noticed by Herbert Grönemeyer, who signed the duo to his Grönland label in 2011. After the release of an acoustic EP titled Hungry Beast, BOY's folk-pop debut album, Mutual Friends, hit the stores in September 2011, entering the German album charts at number 14 and even reaching the top spot of the Amazon sales charts. Their single "Little Numbers," which charted at number 65, was featured in the movie Kein Sex Ist Auch Keine Lösung, in the TV comedy series Knallerfrauen, and in the Lufthansa spot "Nonstop You." In 2012, BOY released Acoustic Session, which featured the duo performing live acoustic versions of songs off Mutual Friends. Album Review - from allmusic The debut album from Hamburg, Germany-based singer/songwriter duo BOY, 2011's Mutual Friends, is a melodic, often introspective album grounded in the group's poignant, emotionally resonant, female-centric point of view. Centered around the talents of Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass, BOY are ostensibly a folk-pop duo, but with backing from a handful of keyboardists, guitarists, and drummers -- including, on a few tracks, Phoenix's Thomas Hedlund -- they find a nice balance between the lightly experimental, catchy pop of Feist and the more twee-confessional style of Regina Spektor. What helps BOY rise above their similarly inclined female contemporaries is their knack for memorable pop songcraft that moves from the intimate, minor- key sound of cuts like "Railway" to more breezy, radio-ready tracks such as the cheekily titled '70s pop of "Oh Boy." With shimmering melodic lines and a pleasant, natural production approach, many of the songs on Mutual Friends find an immediate home in your ears that's as cozy as it is bittersweet. Part of this is due to Steiner and Glass' gift for writing lyrics that seem to capture what life is like for many women in their twenties. There is a recurring theme of newly discovered female freedom and sexual identity on the album that finds BOY thinking about such universally relatable "firsts" as getting an apartment ("This Is the Beginning"), working a day job ("Waitress"), falling in love ("Little Numbers"), and leaving home ("Drive Darling"). In the last example, Steiner sings "The trunk is filled with records and books and chairs and clothes/I'm smiling on the surface/I'm scared as hell below," and, later, "Good morning freedom, good night lullabies." Whether saying goodbye to a lover, or a parent, or perhaps even falling in love with each other, this BOY is forever on the cusp of becoming a woman. Track Listing 1. This Is The Beginning 2. Waitress 3. Army 4. Little Numbers 5. Drive Darling 6. Railway 7. Waltz For Pony 8. Boris 9. Oh Boy 10. Skin 11. Silver Streets 12. July 13. Little Numbers (Acoustic) BOY - Mutual Friends - CRAZY-HORSE - 01-03-2013 your linked track was okay IMO, nothing exceptional though...at least theres no semi naked chicks running round and gyrating etc etc BOY - Mutual Friends - maradona - 17-03-2013 I love Female singer/songwriter duo BOY. Maradona ( Clubvegas999 )