19: The Cool Kids – The Bake Sale
Chocolate Industries/XL

What drew me to the Cool Kids are the fat, slow beats. It’s hard to quantify what exactly makes a good beat, but you know one when you hear one. The Cool Kids have excellent taste in sounds, ranging from vintage video game samples to completely illegal rock snippets, which they then space together with a slow hand: not too rushed, quick when it needs to be, always just right. While the beats are the best part, the Cool Kids are also decent emcees, with a relaxed, lilting delivery and rhymes that entertain while walking the fine line between cocky and smart. A strong debut hinting at more good things to come.

Labels: 2008 Recap, Album Review, The Cool Kids