Imaginary Liz has mentioned the brilliance of catchy indie-pop boys The Drums a few times before, but since I'm usually more consumed with film than music, I somehow didn't really listen to them until this weekend when my boyfriend said, "Hey you might like this" and played me a few tracks. Indeed, I did. I liked it very much.

The whole self-titled CD is bouncy & fun, but my current favorite track is "Let's Go Surfing":

I kinda can't stop listening to this you guys. It's so happy!

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{Kid Sister plays at Neumos on Tuesday, October 20 with Flosstradamus and Four Color Zack.}

Naturally, things move very fast in cyberspace; a few months could feel like an eternity - so it might have seemed a little hyperbolic for the music website Pitchfork to ask Kid Sister herself if her anticipated first album was a “Chinese Democracy-type situation,” referring to the Guns N Roses album that was released almost eighteen years after its predecessor, but the point remained: a lot of people are waiting for Kid Sister’s first album to drop.

The first time most people (myself included) heard of the now-twenty-nine year old Chicago MC Kid Sister born Melisa Young, was when the remix to her single “Pro Nails” was making its way across the blogosphere in 2007 and was aided by a couple of verses added by Kanye West. The song was produced by West’s DJ and Kid Sister’s boyfriend, A-Trak and is an addictive pop song with a big hook in the chorus and Kid Sister’s smooth delivery. It is the type of hit that would be at home in both a dance club and on urban pop radio stations. West’s star power didn’t hurt either and the song found itself flirting with the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts (peaking eventually at number twenty-one).

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The primary complaint I’ve been hearing against Art Brut’s new album, Art Brut vs. Satan, is that it’s not as fantastic as their debut album but merely “good” or “great.” Art Brut is a fantastic band and even their weakest material is head and shoulders above most other bands out there today.

Bang Bang Rock And Roll was solid gold, a witty mixture of Post-Punk musicality and rock deconstructing lyrics. The follow up album, It’s A Bit Complicated wasn’t gold, but it was still shiny. This latest release is also shiny and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

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The track screams Tegan & Sara, the video screams liberal arts degree.

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Art Brut will not only bring our universe into clearer focus, but will also make you want to dance your socks off, in a completely scientific way that is.

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If Billy Bragg had decided to say bollocks to the whole politics thing and instead stuck to his punk-rock roots...

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