Drops: We're having fun, too, Jenny and Johnny

Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Rice, known as Jenny and Johnny, have recorded the album "I'm Having Fun Now," in stores Aug. 31, 2010.
Indie rockers haven't had an "it" couple this sweet since Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield were singing about "drug buddies" and bit parts in your life. (No, Katy Perry and Travie McCoy don't count.)
Jenny and Johnny - aka Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice - are a remarkably photogenic real-life couple and a remarkably talented songwriting duo, whose debut collaboration, "I'm Having Fun Now" (Warner Bros.), is one of those albums that's hard not to love.
After all, Jenny and Johnny do manage to sound like they're having fun, even when they're having a lovers' squabble (the surf-guitar driven "My Pet Snakes") or grousing about the economy (in the super-catchy "Big Wave," Lewis adorably explains the banking system collapse) or politics (in the revved-up folk stomper "Committed," Rice pledges allegiance to the Obama administration).
What makes "I'm Having Fun Now" special is the way Jenny and Johnny's voices fit together - gorgeous, California-dreamin'-styled harmonies that only come when people spend way too much time singing together. On "Scissor Runner," Lewis' harmonies wrap themselves around Rice's vocals, turning the jangly, "Reckoning"-era R.E.M. rocker into something light and airy. On "Just Like Zeus," Rice's harmonies keep Lewis' cutesy delivery from floating away.
That balance makes "I'm Having Fun Now" feel like it captured those rare relationship moments when everything is working just right, meaning that not only did Jenny and Johnny get lucky, but so did the rest of us.
Jenny and Johnny
"I'm Having Fun Now"
GRADE
A
BOTTOM LINE
Sweet couple, even sweeter music
Most Popular
Top Stories

