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- Summary: The second album for the Scottish band was produced by Bernard Butler and is the first album with Dino Bardot, who replaced Jamie McMorrow.
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 16
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Mixed: 10 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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The rest of the remarkably memorable Kicks is similarly raw, tight, and funky.
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Kicks certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it has a whole lotta fun copying it.
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Kicks is less of a cocky triumph, but it still cements 1990s’ position as the torchbearers for no-nonsense Brit-pop.
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Under The RadarThey retain much of the glam rock frivolity and bombast of their debut, with a diaphanous bubblegum pop sheen tacked on courtesy of producer Bernard Butler. [Spring 2009, p.76]
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Kicks is forgettable fare.
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'I Don't Even Know What Time It Is' sums up the whole record, stranded between sublime '80s guitar-pop and the more recent smarminess of Arctic Monkeys and Art Brut.
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The album is also horribly sequenced, pushing its best tracks down after a morass of prettier, more insipid melodies had fluffed you.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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SamuelCApr 6, 2009Although this album has a different sound from their first album it still stays true to their style and is just as catchy and fulfilling.
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RalphKApr 7, 2009
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CarlosUMay 12, 2009Superb effort!
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Jul 3, 2012
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