This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
You can’t stay in your room your entire life.
Brian Wilson figured that out eventually — and Moldy Peaches co-founder Kimya Dawson finally seems to be getting the drift too. Dawson’s latest solo set Hidden Vagenda is the anti-folkie’s most sophisticated and commercial disc to date. Relatively speaking, of course; the girlish Dawson still spends most of her time gently strumming her acoustic guitar and softly warbling naively earnest campfire ditties about angels, seagulls, her grandma and Julian Lennon (though Anthrax is a power ballad about 9/11). The big difference is that most of these 14 tunes sound as if they were rehearsed more than once, and come with enough production to suggest they were recorded in the basement instead of the bedroom. At this rate, she’ll be out of the house — and her shell — in no time.
