Kid Harpoon

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2...according to our Phil on Thu 24 Sep, 2009.

Kid Harpoon is one of those folks we've been stocking since he started and I can't really tell you what his music sounds like. His name is enough to make me think I'm just not gonna like it. If it was Harpooned Kid then I'd have probably shown a bit more interest. I thought Young Turks was about cutting edge music? Bands like The XX, Gang Gang Dance, Holy Fuck etc... I could be horribly wrong but 'Once' is what I think Jamie Cullum sounds like.... It's uber polished overly slushy sounding singer songwriter stuff which has been done to death and has been whitewashed over with a certain blandness that makes it one of the most unappealing things I've heard in ages. Turds.

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Having been holed up in LA with legendary producer
Trevor Horn over the winter of 2008/09, Kid Harpoon
is set to release his debut album ‘Once’. Recorded at
Trevor’s studio in Los Angeles, ‘Once’ is a record that, as
even Kid Harpoon would agree, has been a long time
coming.

Aided by musicians who have previously worked with
everyone from Bob Dylan to Metallica, Kid Harpoon
has created an album that has a timeless quality. It is
also an album that highlights Kid Harpoon’s talent as a
classic songwriter and composer. From the bustling rock
‘n’ roll of forthcoming single ‘Back From Beyond’ to
the gorgeous, heartfelt paean to a long lost relationship
that is the album’s title track and centrepiece, it’s an
album that delivers on the long held promise that Kid
Harpoon has demonstrated since bursting on to the
music scene.

“Dreamy imagery sparkling with passion” - The Sun.

Tracklisting:

Stealing Cars * Colours * Back From Beyond * Buried Alive *
Burnt Down House * Flowers By the Shore * Once * Hold On *
Running Through Tunnels * Death Of A Rose * Marianna *
Childish Dreaming