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Album of the year! Nay, decade, at least! Posted to my by my little sister because it is not out in Germany yet, I've fallen in love with this record (well, CD) every bit as much as I had hoped I would.
It whizzes by in a while, every song perfectly formed and before I know it, I'm through to the hidden track which appears to be Emmy-Kate's first stab at songwriting, which is punctuated with uproarious laughter. But to the proper songs: I don't really know what to say. Words can't describe. "Robot Song" is possibly my favorite with its stuttered, electronic landscape. Perhaps my favorite is "Classy" (which is) or the tongue-in-cheek romp of "P.V.C." (chorus: "It's my favorite plastic/Cause it's nice and shiny/And waterproof") or the sublime "Acetone" which sparkles like shattered glass and aches with angst ("And as I spit my dying wish/You're listening to something else"). Kenickie are far deeper than their fun, youthful exterior would suggest, dealing with loneliness ("Millionaire Sweeper"), self-loathing ("How I Was Made") and alienation ("Robot Song"). But there's an upside to it all which outshines their sadness. It's to be seen in "I Never Complain" where Lauren sings "I never will break/Load me up, I'll take the strain" and my current favorite pop lyric from "Come Our 2Nite" namely "You've got to become what you can."
I can't describe the album better than the band themselves did in a fanclub letter: "The album is about our lives as horsemen of the rock apocalypse, niteclub starlets extraordinaire, the pangs of love...and robots...and stuff. If you have money, buy it. If you don't, steal it. Why not steal money and buy lots?!" (andrew.00)
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come out 2nite • EMIdisc • 2000
Cool! Effortlessly cool! How could one expect anything less from a band of teenagers who name themselves after a character from Grease and whose first single is on the label just set up by St. Etienne's Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs? This exudes pure pop energy, from the handclaps intro on in. I heard the band started by learning 3 chords, writing 9 songs and then playing live. Wow. As I said --- cool! (andrew.00)
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