French Kicks - The Trial of the Century
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Artist: French KicksEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Music Label: Vagrant Startime
Soundtracks:
- One More Time
- Don't Thank Me
- The Trial Of The Century
- Oh Fine
- The Falls
- Was It A Crime
- Following Waves
- You Could Not Decide
- Yes, I Guess
- Only So Long
- Better Time
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Free Music Review: Following Waves
Hit: 5 Stars
From my blogspot site "The Boy Reviewer"
I'm not sure why this record isn't being played everywhere. I picked it up last summer and it's been at the top of my heavy rotation playlist ever since. The French Kicks have never made a bad record, but they have never made one quite so good. The Trial Of The Century finds the Kicks exploring new territory, venturing further away from the raw Marcata sound that characterizes their earlier records. The main difference? Harmony and Melody. This is an album that you want to sing along to.
The album opens with "One More Time," an urgent piece of indie-pop gold, driven by a pumping circus organ flanked by a Korgis-esque synth and a throbbing bassline that prods the song onward. The title track is another gem: a sincere, almost duotonic edxample of elegance in simiplicty. "Following Waves" and "Oh Fine" are other noteworthy tracks, beautiful for their directness.
But there aren't any tracks here that don't deliver the goods. The French Kicks don't mess around on this record. The songwriting is superb. The sounds are clean and interesting for the almost old-fashioned lack of special effects. There is no posing, no deliberate snarls, no pointless or intentional obfuscation, and no riding on the coattails of hipper, older, proven cult heros or revisited fads. The Trial Of The Century works for itself. The French Kicks have arrived.
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