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'Bad Kids / Leroy Faster'

Released on 12 May 2008 on Good Bad Not Evil

Fresh out of Atlanta, Georgia come the NME-approved ramshackle, rock n’ roll styling’s of Black Lips. 'Bad Kids', a two-minute slice of infectious pop with punk flavoured lyrics based on band members’ experience with juvenile detention centres. Inevitably it has more than a faint whiff of Ramones about it, but desperately deserves to be a nod-along, summer anthem. Fantastic. It’s a shame the same can’t be said for 'Leroy Faster', the other half of this double A-side. A psychedelic meander exhumed from the Velvet Underground’s cutting room floor, its over-familiar 1960’s feel simply falls flat.

Posted on 12 May 2008 by Dave Allen

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