Kid Radio: Self-Titled

Kid Radio’s self titled album is set to launch on July 24, it’s a collection full of soulful electronic sounds, emotive lyrics and heavy beats. The four-piece act wrote the entire album on an acoustic guitar and then went to town on a synthesiser, in an outcome that is sometimes good, sometimes not so great.
If you’re into your chilled out, soulful electronic music then you will dig Kid Radio, but don’t sink into any one type of mood because sonically each track varies a fair bit, which is great for the diversity factor but it can also seem a little disjointed at times. For example, the first track, ‘Yell Fire’ is really emotive, deep and has a great sense of darkness about it. Then track two has a really poppy sound about it and is laden with special effects, and then just when you’re getting used to that, some Caribbean sounds are thrown in there too. It’s all a bit confusing. Track four, ‘LCDs’ has a nice sound about it and is experimentally good but the cliché lyrics, ‘I don’t want a second chance, I don’t want your circumstance’ make me think of a bad R&B song from the ’90s.
Overall, Kid Radio are great at creating soulful electronic music and are not afraid to experiment with sounds but the over production and pop vocals in some tracks really bring the entire album down.
Reviewed by Montana Agustin