{"id":3982,"date":"2020-07-25T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2020-07-25T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:51:23","slug":"kid-klumsy-take-another-step-out-from-the-shadow-of-their-frontmans-dirt-box-disco-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"Kid Klumsy take another step out from the shadow of their frontman’s Dirt Box Disco past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EP REVIEW: Kid Klumsy \u2013 The Faces Don’t Fit (STP Records)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Fans of Midlands fun-punks Dirt Box Disco<\/a><\/strong> must have wondered if larger-than-life singer Weab.I.Am was making the right move when he quit a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was the frontman of one of the fastest-rising bands on the DIY punk scene, who had gone from pub gigs to filling the Empress Ballroom at Rebellion Festival in Blackpool in just a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before that remarkable rise he was in another band, Kid Klumsy<\/a><\/strong>, from Coalville, Leicestershire, and although they had to take a back seat to his DBD commitments, there was always the feeling they had unfinished business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, with Weab’s energies concentrated wholly on KK, they’re slowly but surely building a name for themselves, and it’s built on the merits of their music, not just it being ‘that bloke from Dirt Box Disco’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kid Klumsy are a very different animal, as is apparent from this third EP in three years for STP Records<\/a><\/strong>, who have taken them under their wing, just as they did the fledgling DBD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like DBD, the five-piece don’t take life entirely seriously, with songs about not wanting to grow up, dyslexic monkeys and not buying your round already in their canon on previous releases Spit Your Dummy Out<\/strong> (2018) and Singing Our Souls<\/strong> (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, they give us another five original songs, plus a well-chosen if unlikely cover and a bonus ‘hidden’ track. Their sound veers between straightforward punk, with a hint of pop-punk and even dipping into post-hardcore at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kicking things off in style is the catchy Boobs<\/strong>, a tongue-in-cheek apology for ogling your teacher, and for me it’s the best song on here. It could be Bowling For Soup singing \u201cSorry miss, I must apologise\/For the direction of my wandering eyes\/Sorry miss, I hope you understand\/That I can’t take my eyes off your mammary glands\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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