Peter, Bjorn and John

Fri., May 1, 9 p.m., $20-$32, with Luke Top and Chairlift, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

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Published: Apr 28, 2009

rock/pop

Well, they never claimed to care about the young folks. Living Thing (Almost Gold) is PB+J's fourth or fifth album, depending on how you count, but it plays like a classic "difficult third." A far cry from the peppy jangle that made them everyone's favorite Swedish sandwich back in '06-'07, its blood-simple melodies are tethered to stripped-weird, percussion-heavy arrangements that rip a few pages from Lykke Li's perversely primitive Youth Novels (which Bjorn's Bjšrn Yttling produced). Its hookiest chorus is an unprintable slag-off. The second-hookiest, though, comes complete with a ragtag gaggle of singing kids. Maybe they do care after all.

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