| Download Review - TV Kicks |
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| Review by JD 16 March 2007 |
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There appears to be something of a trend forming in these parts for two piece "bands" - I suppose the logistics must be so much easier - organising rehearsals and getting to gigs. TV Kicks are one of these bands. If I've got my facts straight they are the remnants of Sons Of The South and have been around for a while, but never making a big impact. But now, streamlined, they seem to be riding the crest of a wave; and that wave is one big musical tsunami.
There's a pretty distinctive sound running through these tracks, distorted guitar, bluesy riffs, punk styling. It'd be easy to throw in the casual White Stripes reference but this is more like the frenzied drumming of Dave Grohl and an amalgam of Keith Richards and David Johanssen; raucous guitar and wickedly subversive lyrics (listen to Against The Clock for the (surely to become a classic) line: "but your mobile phone won't leave you alone, its ringing in your pocket like an Ann Summers product"). Sardonic observations on life aside, the vocal delivery is stylishly apathetic. Imagine John Lydon with the visceral anger replaced by ennui and you're getting the picture.
Explore, sets out the TV Kicks stall and entrenches the band's riff heavy style. It's all meat and no veg and very tasty because of it. A short, sharp musical equivalent of a T-Bone steak. Jack And Jill starts off with another heavily distorted, tightarse riff. Displaying the real side of love gone wrong (the bitterness and cynicism). Midway through the song speeds up to what you presume will be a chaotic, protracted denouement, but then the riff re-establishes itself, reinforcing the mixed up emotions in the lyrics.
The stupidly catchy riff of Against The Clock and the wry lyrics brings to mind Jonathan Richmond and precedes what must surely be a classic Lincoln tune "Ritzy's Beasts". A marvellous, marvellous riff, amusing, sharp, piss taking lyrics "he likes to get pissed and then throw up", provincially self referencing ( "He lives on Birchwood Estate and likes to swim at night in Swanholme Lakes").
Four tracks well worth giving a listen to, well worth downloading and adding to your player (particularly Ritzy's Beasts and Jack And Jill). Noisy, funny, entertaining and deceptively well crafted. So get out your surfboard and ride that tsunami.
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