Jim A. Morrish
Well-Known Member
SIMPLE KID
THE AVERAGE MAN (taken from the forthcoming album SK1)
29th August 2003
"Enchanting Stuff" - Q
"Like Badly Drawn Boy with different crayons" - X Ray
"A sonic spray-can full of squelching beats, electric sounds & street smart lyrics" - Bang "Plenty of glam but also Neu!...smart lyrics, catchy as hell - here's a star in the making" - X Ray
The Average Man is the brand new single to be taken from Simple Kid's debut album SK1. The Average Man will receive its Irish release on the 29th August and will be followed with the release of SK1 on the 5th September.
Simple Kid 1 is the amazing debut album from unsurprisingly Simple Kid. Produced and mixed by the Kid (Ciaran Mc Feely from Cork) the album retains the rough edge of early Fierce Panda EPs but now with added punch via Steve Fitzmaurice (Depeche Mode mixer) ... which means an album that contains 4 tracks from early days has a new, bigger feel to it.
Simple Kid 1 lets the man show why he is the best wordsmith in Ireland/UK. Period.* This album puts Simple Kid in a place not occupied by any other Irish/ UK artist and it rocks like a big glam one.
SK1 contains newly worked early tracks 'Truck on' , 'The Average Man', 'Supertramps', 'The Commuter' but all completely remixed . The album also contains a hidden track!
Q Review
"SIMPLE KID
SK1
2M RECORDINGS
****
Cork's Ciaran Mc Feely proves to be a bit of a character.
If you're going to play the eccentric ingénue, hailing from Cork - home of the Frank & Walters, Sultans of Ping FC and the crazy Roy Keane - is a definite advantage. The moniker won't fit when he's 38, but it suits McFeely's debut batch of elementary, hummable songs, like The La's sparring with The Beta Band while Marc Bolan looks on. Throughout, McFeely hymns a meaningless modern world, struck by the false promises of the'60's but clearly an enthusiast for its drugs, while the beatboxy, DIY feel doesn't preclude deft arrangements and daft aperçus* such as, "I smoke the brands the with the cancer guarantee". Enchanting stuff.
Danny Eccleston, Q Magazine
THE AVERAGE MAN (taken from the forthcoming album SK1)
29th August 2003
"Enchanting Stuff" - Q
"Like Badly Drawn Boy with different crayons" - X Ray
"A sonic spray-can full of squelching beats, electric sounds & street smart lyrics" - Bang "Plenty of glam but also Neu!...smart lyrics, catchy as hell - here's a star in the making" - X Ray
The Average Man is the brand new single to be taken from Simple Kid's debut album SK1. The Average Man will receive its Irish release on the 29th August and will be followed with the release of SK1 on the 5th September.
Simple Kid 1 is the amazing debut album from unsurprisingly Simple Kid. Produced and mixed by the Kid (Ciaran Mc Feely from Cork) the album retains the rough edge of early Fierce Panda EPs but now with added punch via Steve Fitzmaurice (Depeche Mode mixer) ... which means an album that contains 4 tracks from early days has a new, bigger feel to it.
Simple Kid 1 lets the man show why he is the best wordsmith in Ireland/UK. Period.* This album puts Simple Kid in a place not occupied by any other Irish/ UK artist and it rocks like a big glam one.
SK1 contains newly worked early tracks 'Truck on' , 'The Average Man', 'Supertramps', 'The Commuter' but all completely remixed . The album also contains a hidden track!
Q Review
"SIMPLE KID
SK1
2M RECORDINGS
****
Cork's Ciaran Mc Feely proves to be a bit of a character.
If you're going to play the eccentric ingénue, hailing from Cork - home of the Frank & Walters, Sultans of Ping FC and the crazy Roy Keane - is a definite advantage. The moniker won't fit when he's 38, but it suits McFeely's debut batch of elementary, hummable songs, like The La's sparring with The Beta Band while Marc Bolan looks on. Throughout, McFeely hymns a meaningless modern world, struck by the false promises of the'60's but clearly an enthusiast for its drugs, while the beatboxy, DIY feel doesn't preclude deft arrangements and daft aperçus* such as, "I smoke the brands the with the cancer guarantee". Enchanting stuff.
Danny Eccleston, Q Magazine