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Acid House Kings - Sing Along With Acid House Kings


Acid House Kings win the award for most apprpriately titled album and most inappropriately named band of 2005. Yeah, they've been around for sixteen years now doing this stuff and all, but this here's the album that finally forced itself in front of my face and made me take notice. Just so you know, Acid House Kings are a swedish pop quartet. They sound like a mix between Belle and Sebastian and ABBA (acoustic guitars and cute sing-songy vocals). Coupling well with the folksy retro charm and album title, the CD of Sing Along With Acid House Kings actually comes with a karaoke disc so you can literally sing along! Awesome, no?
The album opens with the utterly adorable "That's Because You Drive Me," where one of the Kings (I'm not entirely sure which) joyously accepts that he is having an impossible time accepting that his girlfriend has left him. "I’ve kept our room in perfect order. I’ve kept your keys where you left them. Call me insane, that’s because you drive me." With briskly strummed guitars, brushed drums and playfully tapped pianos underneath the blissful vocals, I can't help but bop and sing along. Does that make me a bad person?
On the delightfully twee "Tonight Is Forever," the retro-trip brings back the nostalgia of roller disco with a healthy dosage of tambourine, handclaps, rhodes organ and pop horns over a lively chorused electric guitar. I desperately want to be zooming around an oversized disco ball on the hardwood circle in my old-school roller skates with the four chunky orange wheels in a rectangle, chasing some girl in a playful manner. Damn, I feel really awkward sometimes by how happy this music makes me want to be.

That's Because You Drive Me MP3
Tonight Is Forever MP3

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