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Just when I worry I've fenced the Boy Least Likely To into some kinderpop playpen, they rattle out a twinkly B-side about growing old. Free from the panophobia crashing The Best Party Ever, singer/lyricist Jof Owen and composer/multi-instrumentalist Pete Hobbs upturn their whole Crayola box for bouncy retirement-home romance-- "remembering when I was young and I still had my own teeth." Everyone likes 50th wedding anniversaries, but here's where even the foreverest love songs typically hedge their bets. So it's a good thing spry synths and chipper xylophone keep "Porch" more "When I'm Sixty-Four" than mawkish Wedding Singer airplane ballad.

Anyway soon it's back to the playpen: "It might sound stupid, but/ The saddest thing about growing up/ Is that I will never think I'm Spiderman again." Yeah, but if they were American, they might not even get a retirement. Now that would be an awfully big adventure.