ARTiST: Kid Carpet
TiTLE: The Kid's Back
LABEL: Tired & Lonesome
GENRE: Pop
TiME: 11:45 min
SiZE: 15,6 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-02-2007
RELEASE DATE: Sep-03-2007
WEBSiTE: www.kidcarpet.co.uk
Track List:
01. Employee Of The Month 02:58
02. Make It Look Good 03:29
03. The Kid's Back 02:01
04. She's A Vegan 03:17
Release Notes:
Is Kid Carpet taking the piss out of all of us? Is
he taking the piss out of himself? Does he exist, or
is he just some fictional construct designed to
utterly fuck with the heads of anyone who realised
Nathan Barley was a joke, in some kind of
post-proto-spazz-pop way? Buggered if I know.
Actually, I'm fairly sure he's real.
The Kid's Back EP is just under 12 minutes of
batshit insanity that is only slightly reined in by
KC's adherence to what could be called pop song
structures. You're aware that there's a chorus on
"She's a Vegan" but it doesn't make sense in any
conventional sense of the word. It manages to sound
both sneeringly arrogant and pleadingly earnest, but
that didn't stop "Employee Of The Month" from being
one of the most painfully annoying songs to have
invaded my ears on a first listen. But then
something clicks and it becomes obvious that KC is
taking the piss, but he's alarmingly good at it.
He's created a cacophonous rave that almost screams
for some ironic yellow Day-Glo sunglasses and beer,
lots of beer.
Then again, "Make It Look Good" sounds like a
coherent attempt to make an actual pop song. It
works, but somehow sounds a touch tame when compared
to the nonsensical burps and beats on the rest of
the EP, and you just want KC to chuck in some more
stupidly high-pitched keyboard riffs that sound like
midi versions of death metal guitar solos. The Kid's
Back is utter bollocks on the first listen, and a
strange kind of brilliant the second and third
times. Good trick, eh?
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