Thursday, March 27, 2008
Music news / music briefs CD Release:Silent Kids
Posted by Web Editor on Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:00 PM
It's bigger and better for the Silent Kids, who've beefed up their numbers and upgraded their "fi" from low to high.
Frontman Michael Oakley's lithe, lean tenor maneuvers between soaring pop majesty and chunky, melodic alt-rock that suggests Beulah sideswiping Superchunk as they pull out of Modest Mouse's driveway.
The Kids celebrate the release of their second album, Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds, this week. Soaked in ringing hooks and adrenalized rhythms, songs veer from psych-pop clamor ("Soccer Riot") to jagged garage-fuzz ("Pacific Northwest Blues") and acid-folk ("One Hundred Years from Now"). The latter seems particularly apt, with its shambling warning, "Nobody knows the kind of trouble we're in/Nobody seems to think it all might happen again."
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