Catchy tunes with some references to the 80's make this album an easy-to-listen one.

The Blacks Kids debut full length is undoubtedly a departure from their darker versions of the music presented in the free wizard e.p. ,as far as production. You have to give it a second listen!!! This is an awesome album that only suffers from preconcocted notions of what you THOUGHT they were gonna do. Once you can let this album be judged on its own merit, watch out haters, this could easily be the first round knock out punch album of the year, with the black kids working their magic in an astounding 38 minutes. Wow!!! Time flies when your having fun.… Expand

To bad that no new songs appeared on this one, but there are so many great songs that you don't mind hearing them over and over again.

Very good pop album. Ignore the hype, ignore the pitchfork shit review, give it a chance and enjoy it for what it is. A fun dance record.

Bit of a guilty pleasure this one! I'm rarely grabbed by a music video but I was by 'Hurricane Jane' from this debut and had to investigate. 'Teach Your Boyfriend' is another great single and to that short list I'd add 'Making Eyes'. Those 3 tracks ARE the album - great Cure meets Bloc Party meets disco pop songs. At a push 'Listen to Your Body' is a serviceable indie disco stomper. The rest ranges from uninspiring to truly awful (the last 2 songs are unlistenable). Just burn those 4 songs and have a warm bath to try and wash away the dirty feeling of listening to the rest!… Expand

This album is pure crap....the EP showed a lot of promise..but this is just embarrassing on all levels....even pitchfork realizes it now..."Sorry".

I think people expected more of this band than they had any reason to expect. It's a fun, superficial dance record and that's all it aims to be.

people should make start NOW a backlash against pitchfork media

wow...the critics would like this drivel...the ep was fantastic...but everything good about that was stripped away by over-production and the addition of the new songs...which are not close to being on par with the re-recordings of the 4 songs from wizard of aahs...this record makes the killers seem reputable...a piece of trash...plain and simple.

Catchy, but horribly derivative. One part The Cure, one part The Go! Team, and very little variation anywhere.

Awesome record, one of the few I can listen to in it's entirety without ever skipping a track. The perfect summer pop album.

Derivative, yes. I hear influences from The Cure (the singer actually sounds a bit like Robert Smith), Prince and nearly every power pop band that ever existed. Is it a Blonde on Blonde, Sgt. Peppe, Marquee Moon or Nevermind? Of course not, but the songs are catchy and fun. The perfect summer record.

They've done a great record But the post production just makes its sound not nearly as good as "wizard of ahhs".

Wow. A band that blatantly rips off the B-52s, adds the vocals from Hot Hot Heat, and throws in an "awkward indie" sound. There are 3 songs that I MIGHT listen to on a day riddled with boredom (Charm (Again), Limousine, and Hurricane) but there are a majority of completely forgettable songs on this album. There's a difference between giving kudos to an older band by ripping them off then making it sound good and ripping off their sound then just sounding disastrous. This band CAPTURES the latter.… Expand

Very boring and overrated.

It's catchy start to finish. about 5 standout cuts. Why hate?