"We Can All Get Along With Dinosaurs," the third track on If You Ever See an Owl . . . , has my eighteen-month-old enthusiastically, if not gracefully, bopping his diaper-clad buns off. "Wow," I think, "Nathan's really diggin' the music." Then I realize my dancing toddler is possibly just copying his dad, whose moves are, sadly, no more coordinated than his son's. Fancy dance moves aside, the whole household genuinely loves this bright, poppy album from former Get Up Kids frontman Matt Pryor and his bandmates in the New Amsterdams, with its jangly guitars and Pryor's earnestly nasal vocals. "Math Stomp" (my favorite math primer since "Three is a Magic Number"), the jaunty "Heather in the Heather," and the title track blend so seamlessly into our Death Cab for Cutie and Neko Case-laden music collection that they barely make a blip when iTunes sends them up on shuffle. And the sleepy closer, "Grumpy Bug," has given me a new lullaby to sing at bedtime: "The hour grows old / and I love you so / But I wish you'd sleep." — Jessica Bennett