i'm usually pretty 'up' on music. it's fairly rare for an an up and coming artist to evade my attention for a prolonged period of time, and there have been a few bands i've been particularly proud of getting to well earlier than most people - i beat the pitchfork crowd to tennis by a significant chunk of time, and caught on to sleigh bells even before eye weekly picked them up. the upshot of this level of attention? every once in a blue moon, i get to have one of those absolute asshole moments where i get to tell somebody 'oh, yeah, them? they're pretty good. the EP was better though'. it's like being a hipster for 30 seconds.
that, and i get to have lots of awesome music. i'll let you judge which is the real win.
from time to time, though, i will completely miss the boat on a band, and i couldn't have done so more thoroughly than with the naked and famous. mgmt's success with Oracular Spectacular in 2007 spawned a wide variety of copycat sounds, and they arguably fit in that mold, but with one exception - these kids are good. by this point you are likely well aware of their first single Young Blood, but for posterity, here it is.
the naked and famous - young blood
if Young Blood is to mgmt's Time to Pretend, Punching in a Dream is Kids - a little harder-hitting, but no less catchy.
the naked and famous - punching in a dream
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