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Kicks

1990s

Kicks

Second album from the Scottish purveyors of straight-up Brit-pop

ADM rating[?]

6.0

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
23/03/2009
  1. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    This band want to sound and look a very particular way. Seeing as this as eternally youthful, lively, fun-loving oiks, we salute them.
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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    While it’s unlikely 1990s will follow Franz Ferdinand into the charts anytime soon, Kicks proves they’ve got the hooks and the personality to attract a respectable following, and a packed dancefloor at the local indie disco. Kicks certainly doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it has a whole lotta fun copying it
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  3. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    British buzz bands come and go, but 1990s have earned the right to stick around.
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  4. 6.0 |   The List

    Most of the sleaze, the glam and the rioting has been kicked out.
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  5. 5.0 |   Spin

    The riffs have gotten sharper and more jagged as the punch lines have grown duller and less imaginative. 
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  6. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    1990s have not made a bad album, but like the decade itself Kicks never lives up to its promise and contains too many derivative and unmemorable moments.
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  7. 4.9 |   Pitchfork

    This album would be hard to distinguish from the throng of other UK-based bands storming our shores armed with herky-jerky guitar riffs.
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