Kids on a Crime Spree- We Love You So Bad (Slumberland- 2011)
~by Gabe McBride
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Somewhere between a longish EP and a mini LP, my initial impression of Kids on a Crime Spree’s eight song debut was that this is a young band who are mature beyond their years, playing reverb heavy, punked-out updates on late 50’s/early 60’s rock ‘n roll (think Buddy Holly with an effects pedal). As it turned out, I was exactly wrong about the bands’ chronological youth, as KoaCS is the work of a 40’sish guy, Mario Hernandez, maintaining a youthful outlook on We Love You So Bad, and whose work with his previous band, guitar and keyboard pop mavens, From Bubblegum to Sky, I was (quite happily) familiar with.
With the album’s boyish vocals and unblinking indebtedness to so-big-today-it’s-hard-to-believe-they-were-around-almot-thirty-years-ago, flavor of right now, Jesus and Mary Chain, Hernandez has carved out a feedback swathed, surf-rock mini-masterpiece that begs to be put on looping repeat on your listening device of choice. Word is, Hernandez has almost 100 tracks recorded under the Kids on a Crime Spree moniker. Here’s to a full-length (or two) in 2011!
For Fans of: The Raveonettes, The Queers
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