Black Kids
Wizard of Ahhhs EP
Label: N/A
Year: 2007
Track List
1. Hit the Heartbreaks
2. I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
3. Hurricane Jane
4. I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)
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from Canada's Exclaim Magazine
The big things to consider are that of the four songs on Wizard of Ahhhs, not one of them resembles another and that Youngblood is showing signs of becoming a wordsmith along the lines of Morrissey."Hit the Heartbreaks" uses pseudo-prog guitar lines that lift the hair on your skin only to get your neck chicken-nodding to that relentless cowbell, while Youngblood sings the words "It's not me, it's you" like the relentless breaker-upper we'd all love to be.
"I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You" is a reverb-soaked new wavy pep rally that isn't far from the Go! Team leading cheers to turn the Cure's frown upside down, with Youngblood throwing in defeated lyrics about losing the girl to his jock nemeses at a local disco.
"Hurricane Jane" is the poignant one though, where he sensibly contemplates his loneliness ("It's Friday night and I ain't got nobody so what's the use of making the bed") over some hushed staccatoed guitar.
The finale, "I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)," closes things out by following more of a '60s pop format, evoking the observational wit of Mozzer dropping lines like: "They caught you in the park after dark, giving head to a statue, girl." Ooh.
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