The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Rating: 2.75/5 - Worth a Listen


Year: 2011
Genre: Rap
Style: Alternative Rap
SF Stand out Track: Penny Hardaway
Album's Spotify URL: The Cool Kids – When Fish Ride Bicycles
Pants Rating: 45% (% of album tracks that are simply making up the numbers)




Review/Opinion


The Cool Kids first album was my favourite rap album (the Bake Sale) for some time, it was just different in my opinion. No gangster lyrics, no rims and bling nonsense, they rap both the way I like, it's understandable and their lyrics don't (usually) just contain a mixture of words that rhyme, but don't make any sense.


When I heard they had a new album, I found it on Spotify, and almost deleted it after just the first three tracks, I only kept listening out of respect for their first album.
The album only really livens up via track four "Sour Apples", which is a pretty good track, followed by Penny Hardaway which is a bit of a head bopper.There are a couple of decent tracks later in the album.


This is hardly a classic, however, take the first three tracks of this album and bin them, and you have a half decent album.


I'll delete the poor tracks out the album playlist, and keep the rest.