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I think I'm supposed to hate this album
because of the use of "kid" in their name and the fact these
guys made their bones mostly through blog word-of-mouth. From
the start I actually quite like it. The first two tracks, despite
being this weird kind of circus blues hybrid, are pretty solid.
The rest of the album isn't quite up to that level, but remains
intriguing throughout. The stuff reminds me a bit of The
Walkmen, though that may be mostly due to lead singer, Nathan
Willett's, off-kilter, emotive and warbly voice that skitters
all over the beat and the echoey, chimey guitars. This certainly
isn't verse, chorus, verse stuff, as the songs feel more freeform
and almost old-fashioned in their approach as they ramble and
shamble and belie their goofy moniker with a kind of Broadway
meets the blues indie rock amalgam. It's funny, I've owned this
album for a long time and never really listened to it front
to back until writing this, and now realize that despite some
undercurrent of Christianity going on here (I don't pay attention
to lyrics as well as I should) I still say this is actually
a decent album--if you can get by the singer's theatrics and
the strong initial hipster factor. |
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