Amazon.co.uk Review
With the release of
The Young Knives Are Dead the late 70s are in vogue with the discerning British indie kid. Sparky, abrasive, politically aware, filled with jagged little rhythms that lead nowhere and twist back again, Oxford young bloods the Young Knives' debut album references both
Kraftwerk and lifts a snippet from the Banana Splits theme in its opening song "Walking on the Autobahn". Second track borrows a title from The Jam ("English Rose") and begins with an old school nursery rhyme, carolling merrily to itself like a demented (early) Blur or less riff-concerned Supergrass. This is fantastic, fun stuff: a loveable, liveable hotchpotch of diverse styles and talents--Pavement, Pere Ubu, Comet Gain--beating with a fierce punk rock heart. --
Everett True