Sing Along With Acid House Kings

Acid House Kings | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Labrador Sweden
• ASIN: B000A6SY5M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,307 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Acid House Kings continue their legacy of making timeless pop music. --Matt DuFour, THETRIPWIRE.com, August 2005

...the hooks are so goddamn catchy you won't be able to shake them from your brain. --Bob Weinberg, City Link Magazine, August 2005

...so sweet, so sincerely, romantically in search of beauty that shunning them might be a sign of grave emotional decay... --Dylan Hicks, City Pages, July 27, 2005

Product Description

Acid House Kings return with a classic blend of 60's Motown and Bacharach, 80's The Smiths and timeless pop perfection. Includes the singles "This heart is a stone", "Do what you wanna do" and the upcoming "7 days". "White, heterosexual indie pop has never sounded this gay and soulful!" - Labrador Records. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, Summery Goodness, September 4, 2005

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Kathy Fennessy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sing Along With Acid House Kings (Audio CD)

There's truth in advertising and then there's Acid House Kings. Those looking for acid house on this disc are sure to come away disappointed. Indie-pop fans, however, will find a wealth of sweet, summery goodness, akin to Scotland's Camera Obscura or fellow Swedes the Concretes. "Sing Along With" may be too cute for some, what with all the hand claps, finger snaps, and tambourine shakes, but Acid House Kings never succumb to self-parody. To paraphrase Johnny Rotten: "They mean it, man."

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why can't US pop be this good?, August 30, 2005

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tvcritik - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sing Along With Acid House Kings (Audio CD)

Don't let the group's name fool you. This is breezy and beautiful pop music with intelligent lyrics and glorius melodies that you can truly sing along with. You'll have a hard time getting these songs out of your head. If you like this CD, you won't go wrong if you also buy any of their other CDs.

There is a special edition of "Sing Along with the Acid House Kings" that comes as a 2 disc set; one disc is the regular CD and the second disc is a DVD with videos of all the songs in both the sung versions and karaoke versions. Lyrics are present on the videos to help you sing along but it won't be long until you'll know the lyrics by heart. In addition, there are 3 bonus videos of songs from their other CDs.

The Acid House Kings are the #1 pop group in Sweden and for good reason. If only US pop could be this good.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cardigan rock, February 17, 2006

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W. Davidson (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sing Along With Acid House Kings (Audio CD)

Ah, Sweden - the gift that keeps giving. As if it wasn't enough to bestow the world with The Cardigans, flat-pack furniture, the adjustable wrench and the fabbest four of them all (do I really need to name them? Shame on you), the list of delights continues with the sweet musical charm that is Acid House Kings.

With their family-portrait-meets-knitting-pattern album sleeve and strangely inappropriate name (that conjures up images of a dance act) Acid House Kings are in fact melodic summery guitar-pop confection. Their music is nothing groundbreaking and frankly, you've heard it all before. There's nothing remotely challenging or fussy about their 12 songs in 36 mins pop style, but somewhere in their simplicity and familiarity lies the absolute genius of their music.

Sharing a musical kinship with indie labels such as Sarah and Parasol and pop acts such as Belle & Sebastian, Saint Etienne or Birdie, it comes as little surprise to find they feature members of the Euro pop groups Red Sleeping Beauty and Club 8. Sing Along With Acid House Kings is most successful when they showcase the honeyed vocals of Julia Lannerheim but the milquetoast vocals of Niklas Angergård also have an anaemic charm that grows on you. Stand out tracks are 7 Days which will surely tempt the use the CD track repeat button, My Heart Is a Stone with a swinging rhythm and unexpected stuttering pauses and Tomorrow is Forever - disco-lite featuring Niklas and Julia's call-and-response vocals and yet another knock-out chorus.

This is note-perfect indie-bubblegum that defies you not to love it by the third spin. Initial quantities of the album come with a bonus DVD of exclusive videos made by the band (mostly in their living rooms it seems, would you expect anything else?) and karaoke versions of all the songs. Uncomplicated, clean-cut, utterly unpretentious and entirely lovable, Acid House Kings are set to soundtrack Summer trips to the beach, afternoons dozing in the garden or at the very least to calm your nerves and sing a long to while putting together that Leksvik coffee table or Billy bookshelf.