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Simple Kid
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Out of 12 votes - Similar Artists: Beck, Super Furry Animals, Gomez, Badly Drawn Boy
Out of 12 votes
- Location: United Kingdom
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Indie Rock
Editor's review
Imagine if, instead of being weaned on acoustic guitar and learning later to program, you came of age on the laptop, then one day tried an old six-string. That's the flip evoked in Kid's modern spin on folk-rock. "2" scores strummy chords with the postmodern version of a toe-tap: the drum machine.
Biography
On his latest release, the logically titled " 2, " Irish-born Ciaran MacFeely (aka Simple Kid) has moved on from the cut and paste styling of his groundbreaking debut 1 to a more organic approach to the writing and production.
While it still retains many of the memorable features that jolted critics and fans on his first outing, 2 moves Simple Kid's sound in a more earthy direction, with linear sonance and focused production: less laptop, more guitar, harmonica and banjo. However, he still knows how to throw a party with tracks like "Lil King Kong" and the stream of consciousness lyrics of "Serotonin" (described by NME as Radiohead meets DJ Shadow).
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