In a genre with a propensity for overdoing it, it's refreshing that Kidcrash continue to release albums without pretension or vocal or instrumental wankery. With obvious influences from the emotional hardcore scene (the most obvious being Off Minor and their jazz-heavy compositional style) and a Kinsella-worshipping bent of mid-west indie, Kidcrash write music that flows fluidly from dense, chaotic crescendos to slower, more intricate passages. The dynamics on Snacks are noticeably better than on Jokes, with a heavier focus on variation between these two extremes and everything in between. Their exploration of this middle ground is what separates this album from the disproportionately large pack of mediocre emotional hardcore records, along with their technical proficiency which, while ever on display, never descends into tasteless self-indulgence. Plus it's impossible for me to resist those twinkly, twinkly guitars.
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