Kid and Conundrum

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Kid and Conundrum lays before you a smorgasbord of sounds and delights for your listening pleasure. Cunning music and words are framed within a sound which is often loud, quiet, loud quiet, then often loud again. The real genius of Kid and Conundrum is the rhythmic groove-laden backline of jumpy bass and drums, sketched upon with melodies and words of well-crafted alternative-sounding songs; all testifying to the random mix of influences behind the band's eclectic song-writing.

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"All of this is great but it's the lyrics that are stunning. Bitter words in a sweet setting, protests and entreaties: 'Tonight we're gonna change the rules again - tonight we’re gonna sell-out all our friends'; 'That's how we worked out what's true, we just looked in your eyes, we saw right through you'; 'There's no point in getting comfy where you are, tomorrow they could take it all away' and 'I'm trying to understand why we are sleeping in the sand when the mystery of the sea is not far away'. Song-writing as evangelism, but with cleverly oblique messages.



Kid and Conundrum provide a wealth of material for the amateur reviewer and the pub psychologist. The narrative flow of the singing and the Gainsberg waft of the melody are the core features, but there are lots of interesting asides - disco-feel guitar janglers, a rolling soul ballad, an edgy funk number, bizarre titles (my favourite 'Baghdad Bakesale'), and a string of fake endings. There hasn't been such brightly odd pop music since the days of James and of Lloyd Cole. The final K&C protest 'Alien nation, what is wrong with you?' comes from a band that can analyse the problems of the world but feels powerless to change them. Brilliance born of frustration."

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