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Track Listings
| 1. Vondel Park |
| 2. Tell Me When You're Ready |
| 3. I Don't Even Know What That Is |
| 4. 59 |
| 5. Kickstrasse |
| 6. Everybody Please Relax |
| 7. Balthazar |
| 8. Local Science |
| 9. The Box |
| 10. Giddy Up |
| 11. The Kids |
| 12. Sparks |
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Review
Sharing vocal duties, Jackie McKeown, Dino Bardot and Michael McGaughrin create sweetness on top of all their choppy angularity. Produced by Bernard Butler, Kicks is much smarter than the potpourri of influences from which it derives. Butler is no stranger to crafting exquisite, hook-laden tunes - just hear his work with David McAlmont and Duffy, and it is here in frothy spades. 30 minutes in their company, no matter how superficial it may be, you feel dizzied, exhilarated, even.
59 - a song about a bus trip from a Glasgow suburb to Narnia and Brigadoon - is terrific. It has a refrain that you're sure you've heard somewhere, and could broadly be described as stupid, dreamy pop. They are frequently hilarious, especially on I Don't Even Know What That Is, the tale of a proposition made to Bardot at a San Francisco party. Kickstrasse, a skewiff refrain to Baader-Meinhof, and the album's sort-of title track, is clever, bright but not smug.
Kicks is one of the best examples of the musical post-modern patchwork so prevalent in 2009. And they have remembered to pack the tunes, the eccentricity and the wit. A shiny, glossy, hoot, it is everything indie should be in our twittered-up Spotified age. --Daryl Easlea
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Customer Reviews
"59" could be a Flight of the Conchords outtake. "Kicks" stays rooted in angular sounding pop through a large portion of the album, as 1990s aren't afraid to show their power poppy punk influences on the majority of tracks. On first listen, there were times I thought I was listening to a long lost Dada record especially on "Balthazar" and "Local Science." Depending on how you view early `90's pop music, that's either a good or bad thing. If 1990s released a single with "Dizz-knee Land" on it as a b-side, it wouldn't be out of place.
The last third of the album goes through some weird transitions and references. "The Box" is reminiscent of Iggy Pop's 70's output, while closers "The Kids" and "Sparks" would easily fit on a Joe Jackson album. This creates a slightly schizophrenic listening experience because it doesn't seem to logically progress to me. Maybe it flows in the 1990's world, and I guess that's all that matters.
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