Shouting At Wildlife

Do you remember indie? Do you remember pop? Try new indie pop, revived for your pleasure by the infectiously cheery Kid Canaveral.

In the last couple of weeks their debut LP, Shouting At Wildlife, has been described in the Record as the one album you should buy this year by a band you don't know, Vic Galloway has made it album of the month on his BBC Radio 1 show, The List have given it 4 stars, and lets not even mention the blogging world (although Peenko has a track by track chat with the band here and 17 Seconds speaks to them here, which is nice. Oh, and here's a review by Fire Escape Talking).

So is there really any need for me to throw in my two cents? Of course not. But I shall.

They've got synths! They've got la's! They've got catchy hooks! They've got amazing cover art for the CD courtesy of Glasgow-based graphic designer Eve McConnachie!

There are happy songs, then some more serious stuff as if to prove there are hidden depths beneath the pop perfection swirling on the surface. I'd probably have been quite happy with a whole album of 'Cursing Your Apples', but I was surprised and excited by tracks like 'Quiet Things Are Quiet Now', which is unlike anything I've heard from Kid C before, as well as the distinctly 80s tinted 'Talk and Talk'.

You can pre-order the CD here, which you ought to do because it will make you totally cool. And happy. Then you should come to the album launch at The Roxy Art House. The tickets are on playing cards, for crying out loud! That's reason enough, surely?

Stuff

You may notice I have not uploaded a picture for the last two days. This is because I have stuff to do. Some of which actually includes promotional art for a graphic novel being written by a friend of Captain Tact though, so y'know, swings and roundabouts.

Also, if you are in Edinburgh tonight with nothing to do, consider yourself doing something! The glorious return of Kid Canaveral, along with Cancel the Astronauts and Babygod, takes place TONIGHT! In like an hour, at the Wee Red Bar in Edinburgh College of Art. Off you go and get doled up, s'only a fiver. And I have it on good authority that Kid C are gon' play some new stuff, from their nearly completed album. The excitement is palpable!

Tonight

A Gig!

Featuring the return of these chaps. (The picture is the link.)

They haven't played live together for over a year, a sad state of affairs indeed. But tonight they rise like a phoenix from the ashes to conquer The Ark.

That's the Edinburgh venue, not the big wooden boat.

Other acts on the bill are Black Avenue (who are Scottish grungers, not to be confused with the Portuguese or Hip Hop bands of the same name), Simon Patchett (a chap from Inverness), Autonomous (who like brackets and come fae Kirkcaldy) and No Love Lost (again, a Scottish post punk act not the American hair rockers who were the initial google result). The £4 entry thusly averages out at 80p a band! BARGAIN.