Friday, October 05, 2007

This just in from Pitchfork…

Black Kids
Wizard of Ahhhs EP

[Self-released; 2007]


"[I'm] struggling, really, to be honest," Reggie Youngblood said on a 102-degree day in Georgia this summer. It was between songs during Black Kids' set at Athens Popfest, and the singer/guitarist's onstage banter wasn't sounding quite as sharp as his songwriting. The guitar-jangling, Jacksonville-based five-piece were hardly "struggling" musically, though: Eyewitness raves about the performance spread faster than you can say "Technorati," and positive notices soon followed from the NME, Vice, The Guardian, and, yes, Pitchfork. All this for a band with no announced label, or even much touring history.

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SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

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