Good Kids is back with their sophomore full length, Playground Anthems!
The children’s music project created by 4 dads best known as members of the rock band, Army of Freshmen released their self titled debut in late 2022 and it garnered almost instant critical acclaim in the children’s music community. Songs from the multi genre record received airplay on children’s music shows around the world including heavy rotation in the United States on the Sirius XM channel, Kids Place Live.
In addition to their debut record cementing Good Kids as an important new voice in the children’s music genre, an educational video on the band’s YouTube channel centering around the song, “Starting A Band”, went viral on YouTube Kids bringing the band worldwide exposure.
Now with Playground Anthems, the 4 members of Good Kids continue their theme of writing songs from a child’s perspective on the important milestones and experiences that take place in the formative years of their lives.
From the country swing of “The Kid Who Loves Legos” about a lego obsessed kid who finally meets his match to the hook filled rocker “In My Fort” to the moving lullaby “Where The Wind Blows” to the laugh out loud sing-along, “Stinky Little Feet”, Playground Anthems is another collection of meaningful songs for both kids and adults full of hope and encouragement.
For years the band members of Army of Freshmen harbored a plan to one day record a children’s music record. As many of them became parents at a relatively older age they would often discuss how they were seeing great subject matter for songs happening right in front of them. While knee deep in raising young children themselves, and with the pandemic forcing them off the road, the band members decided it was finally time to make the children’s music album they had always wanted to.
Concentrating on influential and relatable experiences in a child’s life like the first day of school, struggling with sports, losing training wheels, and having a new sibling, all the songs on the debut album are told from a kid’s perspective and carry a sense of hope and encouragement.
Along with the self-titled debut, the band members also created an engaging new web series Good Kids, a visual companion where the learning and encouraging aspect of the band’s music continues. Each episode offers an educational and fun overview of one of the album’s song subjects and they are all available on the Good Kids YouTube channel. The episodes are hosted by a different band member and they feature an interview with a “real” good kid as well some comical vignettes of the band taking on the subject themselves from sports to going to school to starting a band.
[Listen on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lYgwVBgdG8r6fFUSTX5Pf?si=aaYhz9UdQyOwOS0MORXtMg)