http://www.myspace.com/blackkidsrock
this is actually quite good,( those fprk hypers are right for a change)
Like Danielson Famile,but much more melodic and accessible,this is a rare innocent fun.
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 08:51 (sixteen years ago) link
good stuff
― tremendoid, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:24 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah,very good. and i hope they wont get ruined,once they will release a "proper" L.P.
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://b7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01297/73/18/1297648137_l.jpg
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i really fucking love this.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.theyellowstereo.com/?p=1437
so they're actually black and white kids.whatever
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:48 (sixteen years ago) link
love the production, too. the distance created is really great. dude's voice is also so perfect.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
agree about the production - and it's demo, thats why im saying - hope they won't ruined,if they will become polished.
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:51 (sixteen years ago) link
they most remind me of russian futurists(like, alot) but the lead singer's voice sends them into hyperspace
― tremendoid, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
(most comparisons on the net are to go!team,arcade fire and motown stuff)
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
=why they pay me the big bucks
― tremendoid, Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:03 (sixteen years ago) link
'hurricane jane' is one of my favorite songs of the year. devastating chorus. they sound like they really fucking mean it, and i think that's kinda rare w/in indie-pop nowadays.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
argh NOTHING like the go! team. way too emo. a lot of it sounds like denser, darker tullycraft. marc h0gan used the word 'cavernous' on p4k, which is a pretty apt way to describe where they are coming to (especially compared to other indie-pop bands).
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
coming from*
i still think about danielson familie
― Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 11:13 (sixteen years ago) link
their second album will sound like u2.
― max r, Sunday, 7 October 2007 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The Pitchfork review says the songs are available to download from MySpace. But when I tried that, I only got 5 second snippets. Anyone else have the same experience?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 October 2007 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
drummer sucks
― cutty, Sunday, 7 October 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 October 2007 12:47 (4 hours ago) Link
no. try hype machine.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 7 October 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
"But when I tried that, I only got 5 second snippets"
it happend to me as well,retry 2 or 3 times,it will work eventually.
― Zeno, Monday, 8 October 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
It worked for me, not that I'm all that thrilled w/what I'm hearing. It's nice and all, but the idea that it deserves any special attention seems kind of odd.
― dlp9001, Monday, 8 October 2007 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
All four here as MP3s: http://24hourpartypooper.blogspot.com/2007/10/hold-on-baby-band-hold-on.html
They sound like a happy Arcade Fire, which is meh.
― caek, Monday, 8 October 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
argh NOTHING like the go! team. = Go! Team is surely a lazy reference point, but surely you can see how people would hear that jump-rope-y chant on "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You" and think of "Ladyflash" or "Junior Kickstart."
Then again, I don't hear even an iota of Tullycraft, so who knows.
― Ben Boyerrr, Monday, 8 October 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not really feeling anything except "not gonna teach your boyfriend..." but that one is a gem.
― sleep, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
-- cutty, Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:04 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link
― cutty, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
If anyone had trouble downloading this before you can now get it from the band's website if you give them your age and email address.
― three handclaps, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
odd that they ask people their age! But saw them last night here in Oxford and they were lots of fun. I agree with the Go! Team references but I thought they were a bit like Broken Social Scene too.
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i wonder what cutty thinks of their drummer
― max, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
new record " Partie Traumatic",in july, looks like an expansion of the e.p:
1 Hit the Heartbreakers 2 Partie Traumatic 3 Listen To Your Body Tonight 4 Hurricane Jane 5 I'm Making Eyes At You 6 I've Underestimated My Charm (Again) 7 I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You 8 Love Me Already 9 I Wanna Be Your Limousine 10 Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo)
― Zeno, Monday, 5 May 2008 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z98BLhmhL._SS500_.jpg
produced by Bernard Butler, original US release date July 22, 2008 (Red Int / Red Ink).
d/l now, what are ILM thoughts?
― Bee OK, Monday, 7 July 2008 03:54 (fifteen years ago) link
the clean sound destroyed all the fun. too bad.
― Zeno, Monday, 7 July 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
also, the new songs, the ones who werent on the e.p, are embarrassingly bad.
― Zeno, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
their drummer looks like stuart from mad tv
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Black_Kids_Live_MTV2.jpg/800px-Black_Kids_Live_MTV2.jpg
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j116/yozerities/Misc/StuartMadTV.jpg
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 July 2008 07:15 (fifteen years ago) link
The album is way overproduced (by Bernard Butler) and some of the songs are just cloyingly saccharine. Disappointing.
― Chris in Belfast, Monday, 7 July 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
great fun live band though, and bb showed up onstage at their ulu show. they'll be forgotten by 2010, except in a "wow, remember that boyfriend song from 2007?" sorta way, but that's fine.
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 7 July 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, cracking song to be remembered by at least.
― Chris in Belfast, Monday, 7 July 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard a song from this band that I didn't think was embarrassingly bad. And I like goofy twee bands.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I am not going to lie, I don't see what the higher production values have done to ruin songs that were already pretty damn bad.
― Keaney Tong, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Ouch.
― MacDara, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Is this Pitchfork's most embarrassingly transparent and desperate attempt to try to lay claim to some sort of status above the cunted internet feedback loop?
Yep! 10.0/10.0
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
damn homie
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
whatta lazy cop-out
i do love the role of "ray suzuki" as pitchfork's http://bp3.blogger.com/_WqvMLlERcvY/RvyAN31SBeI/AAAAAAAAACM/y7TDkgpYyqY/s1600/deathatgolf.jpg though
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
They changed it from a 0.0 to 3.3 within the last hour. They can't even commit to their bullshit.
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
And now Scott Plagenhoef is the author, not Ray Suzuki...
― zeus, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
and now the review is a picture of dogs.
oh, pitchfork, you card!
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought the review was always a picture of dogs
― t_g, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I met someone who actually read pitchfork once, it was weird. I thought he was kidding but he looked all sad when I giggled.
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
This will be their Rattle And Hum moment, right?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z100/Adolfo71014/RW-Peter-Griffin-Ridiculous.jpg
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post: that's a good story, reading ilm is way cooler
― t_g, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
can someone explain what happened here?
― cutty, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
It was simply a computer error left over from our server change a few weeks back. An eariler version of this same review-- but with a placeholder rating, subhead, and author name-- was ported over and accidentally 'reverted to' in our system when I woke and it was changed asap. Sorry...it's a boring technical difficulty.
― scottpl, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
it's remarkable that a review like this one need a few weeks of advance planning, and that management still fucked it up.
― elan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
"Everybody's got to hear the shit on WBALLZ, WBALLZ
WBALLZ!"
― elan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
the original teaser made much more sense. now it's like they're apologizing to the band? either way this is just really lazy and kinda gutless
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It wasn't so much advanced planning as one early, internal joke that turned out to be the thing we ended up going with. We are also constantly working to correct and curb our CMS errors but a computer error and a human error are different things.
Whether a reader, or loads of them, finds it lazy or gutless is another matter, of course.
― scottpl, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's safe to say Pitchfork will never recover from this one error
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
In a cheap and shitty way this review is satisfying to me.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't wait til the interview where that editor dude says "Pitchfork is entirely responsible for your backlash, whaddya think of that?"
― Brooker Buckingham, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I've felt like someone owed me an apology for Black Kids ever since I heard them, so this seems about right.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MuL6uz5JL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― poortheatre, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
one early, internal joke that turned out to be the thing we ended up going with.
I don't understand; do you mean the review will remain the LOLDOGs image?
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Zeno, Sunday, 7 October 2007 10:39 (9 months ago) Link ruined by loldogs
― mizzell, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, totaly ruined. 3.3 is even a high score for this bad record
― Zeno, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link
What does it mean for the dog picture to have an "author?" Does that mean Plagenhoef took the picture and added the lolcat caption?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
think about it as an art piece...
― Zeno, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
In that case, 4chan is the internet's MOMA?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
HOMO, morelike
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it too much for them to at least explain why they think the record is so awful?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
No shit! When they played a huge role in blowing them up to begin with!
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Does it maybe mean they liked the EP but not the record like some of you dudes?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard the new record at all! I just think its horribly lazy to pull this kind of stunt. At least tell us why this didn't live up to the promise of the EP.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Sometimes a couple of pugs are worth more than a thousand words. :-/
I agree with the "somehow, this review makes me happy" sentiment
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
And we've definitely proved that a couple of pugs means a thousand new blog entries on the Black Kids.
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
-- call all destroyer, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
a. i dont think anyone here is playing capn save a black kid cuz we think this really awful record is good b. the record is basically the ep + 5 songs so that logic doesn't really fly either
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
How do you do this and not use a "DO NOT WANT" or "FAIL" image?
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
^^the best question
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh I dunno, there's some pretty posi posts about the EP and then it was all re-recorded or something, so maybe people are down on that. I really couldn't be bothered to learn more because the songs I've heard are derivative, smug bullshit that remind me of the worst aspects of being friendly with hipsters in college.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
it reminds you of getting friend-zoned?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
The friend zone (or friendship zone) is a folk psychology concept found in many texts geared towards a male audience about "dating advice", or "seduction advice". In that case, that man would be mentally categorized as a "friend" rather than a lover, i.e. put into the friend zone.
Great try, but no.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It does kind of remind me of my roommate getting friend-zoned, though.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Honestly? You think Black Kids are smug? It's slightly clever twee - almost the opposite.
― skygreenleopard, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Also - slocki's comment? Hilarious. I should also emphasize I think it's the opposite not because it's twee (which can get pretty ironic and smug too) but because I think it's pretty sincere.
― skygreenleopard, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:29 (fifteen years ago) link
nb:: this blog: http://tweefashion.blogspot.com/
― wilter, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:31 (fifteen years ago) link
YO DUDE ARE YOU A SKYGREEN LEOPARD DUDE
― jeff, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
jk i don't care :D
hehhhhh
― wilter, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oh skygreen leopards they will believe anything.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 11:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeff: Unfortunately, I'm not. Someone asked me that in the Pitchfork thread too - as I said there, I bought their CD a while ago and I've used their name as a log-in in everything since. I also like the band a whole lot. However, it can probably cause some confusion here on ILX. Might be changing the nickname soon.
― skygreenleopard, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
these things are so weird to me, like everyone goes apeshit for some halfway decent/halfway shitty band and then all of a sudden they release a new album and it's like THE SCALES HAVE FALLEN FROM MY EYES....
new shit seems like kinda spanau ballet type shit...i dunno...i seriously don't know why like vampire weekend's week-ass shit is the best thing ever and this weak-ass shit is the worst ever...like just flip a fuckin' coin. i probably like this sort gay nu-romantic type vibe better than cod-african preppy "funk"....v
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
spanDAU ballet
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Unfortunately, I'm not.
LOL
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 24 July 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
metacritic seems to have found the review unquantifiable.
― poortheatre, Friday, 25 July 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
umm..
http://www.stereogum.com/1925736/stream-black-kids-rookie/music/album-stream/
― devvvine, Monday, 20 February 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Kinda into this, two songs in and it sounds like the last eight years of indie music didn't happen.
― devvvine, Monday, 20 February 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
I met someone who actually read pitchfork once, it was weird. I thought he was kidding but he looked all sad when I giggled.― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:30 (eight years ago) Permalink
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:30 (eight years ago) Permalink
Hehehehehe!
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Monday, 20 February 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link