Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs

good stuff

yeah,very good. and i hope they wont get ruined,once they will release a "proper" L.P.

http://b7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01297/73/18/1297648137_l.jpg

i really fucking love this.

http://www.theyellowstereo.com/?p=1437

so they're actually black and white kids.whatever

love the production, too. the distance created is really great. dude's voice is also so perfect.

agree about the production - and it's demo, thats why im saying - hope they won't ruined,if they will become polished.

they most remind me of russian futurists(like, alot) but the lead singer's voice sends them into hyperspace

(most comparisons on the net are to go!team,arcade fire and motown stuff)

=why they pay me the big bucks

'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.

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).

coming from*

i still think about danielson familie

their second album will sound like u2.

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?

drummer sucks

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 (4 hours ago) Link

no. try hype machine.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

i'm not really feeling anything except "not gonna teach your boyfriend..." but that one is a gem.

drummer sucks

-- cutty, Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:04 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark 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.

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.

i wonder what cutty thinks of their drummer

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)

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?

the clean sound destroyed all the fun.
too bad.

also, the new songs, the ones who werent on the e.p, are embarrassingly bad.

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

The album is way overproduced (by Bernard Butler) and some of the songs are just cloyingly saccharine. Disappointing.

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.

Yeah, cracking song to be remembered by at least.

also, the new songs, the ones who werent on the e.p, are embarrassingly bad.

I haven't heard a song from this band that I didn't think was embarrassingly bad. And I like goofy twee bands.

I haven't heard a song from this band that I didn't think was embarrassingly bad. And I like goofy twee bands.

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.

Ouch.

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

damn homie

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

They changed it from a 0.0 to 3.3 within the last hour. They can't even commit to their bullshit.

And now Scott Plagenhoef is the author, not Ray Suzuki...

and now the review is a picture of dogs.

oh, pitchfork, you card!

i thought the review was always a picture of dogs

I met someone who actually read pitchfork once, it was weird. I thought he was kidding but he looked all sad when I giggled.

This will be their Rattle And Hum moment, right?

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z100/Adolfo71014/RW-Peter-Griffin-Ridiculous.jpg

x-post: that's a good story, reading ilm is way cooler

can someone explain what happened here?

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.

it's remarkable that a review like this one need a few weeks of advance planning, and that management still fucked it up.

"Everybody's got to hear the shit on WBALLZ, WBALLZ

WBALLZ!"

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

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.

I think it's safe to say Pitchfork will never recover from this one error

In a cheap and shitty way this review is satisfying to me.

I can't wait til the interview where that editor dude says "Pitchfork is entirely responsible for your backlash, whaddya think of that?"

I've felt like someone owed me an apology for Black Kids ever since I heard them, so this seems about right.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MuL6uz5JL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

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?

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 (9 months ago) Link
ruined by loldogs

yeah, totaly ruined. 3.3 is even a high score for this bad record

What does it mean for the dog picture to have an "author?" Does that mean Plagenhoef took the picture and added the lolcat caption?

think about it as an art piece...

In that case, 4chan is the internet's MOMA?

HOMO, morelike

Is it too much for them to at least explain why they think the record is so awful?

No shit! When they played a huge role in blowing them up to begin with!

Does it maybe mean they liked the EP but not the record like some of you dudes?

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.

Sometimes a couple of pugs are worth more than a thousand words. :-/

I agree with the "somehow, this review makes me happy" sentiment

And we've definitely proved that a couple of pugs means a thousand new blog entries on the Black Kids.

Does it maybe mean they liked the EP but not the record like some of you dudes?

-- 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

How do you do this and not use a "DO NOT WANT" or "FAIL" image?

^^the best question

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.

it reminds you of getting friend-zoned?

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.

It does kind of remind me of my roommate getting friend-zoned, though.

Honestly? You think Black Kids are smug? It's slightly clever twee - almost the opposite.

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.

nb:: this blog: http://tweefashion.blogspot.com/

YO DUDE ARE YOU A SKYGREEN LEOPARD DUDE

jk i don't care :D

hehhhhh

oh skygreen leopards they will believe anything.

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.

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

spanDAU ballet

Unfortunately, I'm not.

LOL

metacritic seems to have found the review unquantifiable.

umm..

http://www.stereogum.com/1925736/stream-black-kids-rookie/music/album-stream/

Kinda into this, two songs in and it sounds like the last eight years of indie music didn't happen.

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

Hehehehehe!