Is it any good?

Do they do funk?

i could be mistaken, but i don't think they're black, nor are they kids.

not that there's anything wrong with that.

Anxiety said:

True in a sense but false in another, but i've heard a few trax and they Rock! I like their style

LondonStyle said:

No 191: Black Kids


Today, Paul Lester follows the buzz to a honey of a band that will soon be a household name... if your house happens to be in Hackney or Hove

Wednesday September 26, 2007
guardian.co.uk


Black Kids... we are just moments away from some Arcade Fire-sized buzz. Photograph: Adam Britt



Hometown: Jacksonville, Florida.
The lineup: Owen Holmes (bass), Kevin Snow (drums), Dawn Watley (keyboards, vocals), Ali Youngblood (keyboards, vocals), Reggie Youngblood (vocals, guitar).

The background: Compared to this lot, yesterday's new boy Ben Esser seems like a veteran with a long track record. At least he was once in a band that played a gig. Black Kids are an unsigned four-piece who have never been on tour but are suddenly being hailed as the next big thing. In fact, although the buzz only began about three weeks ago, it's fast becoming the sort of din that greeted Arcade Fire back in 2005, even the White Stripes in 2002 - if John Peel was still alive, he'd be issuing wild proclamations and making outlandish comparisons with the all-time greats. According to their UK PR, the plan is to release a low-key Black Kids single in mid-November, and there are some debut UK shows in November, but expect them to blow up, big-style, from the word "go".


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Talking of "go", Black Kids have got the boy-girl energy of The Go! Team - their most acclaimed song so far is I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You, a poignant account by hiccuping heartbreak kid Reggie Youngblood - who has a day job as a male nanny, or "manny: - of his tendency to lose the dream-girls he dances with at discos to the club-footed bozo jocks by the bar. It will leave you feeling simply thrilled (honey) with its call-and-response vocals, ringing guitars and atmosphere of sad euphoria, and that's a promise. They've also, obviously, got a brilliant, eminently unforgettable name that says nothing about what they do but speaks volumes about their determination to stand out from the indie crowd, whatever brickbats may be hurled their way re: any supposed insensitivity about The Negro Problem, to cite another US indie band with a superb, provocative, "meaningless" but subversively resonant name. Here are some more names you won't be able to avoid over the next few months: Hit The Heartbrakes, Hurricane Jane, I've Underestimated My Charm - songs of increasingly accomplished instrumental finesse with memorably sorrowful/soaring choruses by a new group whose music and moniker have the capacity to inflame called Black Kids.
The buzz: "They've got the same My Bloody Valentine-gone-frat party street vibe as the Go! Team, that ketamine-dazed, washed-out-quality... Amazing."

The truth: Black Kids will, by November, be a household name - if your house is in Hackney, Hulme, Hove, Hyde Park, Hunters Bar...

Most likely to: Win the race for Best New US Indie Band Of 2007.

Least likely to: Incite a race riot.

File next to: Arcade Fire, Go! Team, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine.

What to buy: Black Kids will be releasing a low-key seven-inch single in November on a very lucky, soon to be very rich, label.

Links: MySpace page

So no-ones heard the album?

MattyJam said:

nope. maybe i'll check it out in the near future. i've been in the mood for something new that i have no idea what it's about.

Been on them since last year and saw them @ Coachella. Their myspace doesn't have my favorite tracks of theirs, unfortunately.

And if I remember correctly, at least one of them are black.

i listened to some of their album this afternoon and i enjoyed it.

it's like robert smith and the B52 girls singing in a band with gary numan and the clash. 80s retro revival salad bar dance party.