New Music Critique: SmartBlackKid

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Contact: 4pjmusicgroup@protonmail.com
Web: smartblackkid.com
Seeking: Film/TV
Style: Modern Rock, Classic Rock, Punk Rock

According to his Bandcamp bio, SmartBlackKid released an astonishing 10 albums in a year between April 2012 and January 2013. That’s the sort of prolificacy that puts even The Beatles to shame. And hey, one could be forgiven for thinking that at some point he was just throwing out any old crap. But no, the evidence doesn’t suggest that at all. Everything we’ve listened to by SmartBlackKid is eminently listenable and massively enjoyable. Straddling the rock ‘n’ roll sub-genres, there are elements of rockabilly and garage rock in his punk sound. Songs like “Free Thought” and “Rock Bottom” have us hooked.