French KicksBest French Kicks Albums Ranked
6.5
Avg Score
4
Opinions
5
Albums
1
Reviewer
Summary from 4 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated French Kicks’s catalog across 5 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 6.5/10. The top-rated French Kicks album is Swimming (2008) with a 7.6/10 average from 1 rating, followed by One Time Bells and Two Thousand. The discography on Rate.fm spans 2002 to 2008.
Swimming
“Garage punks French Kicks have lit on a sound that is boldly, authentically, uniquely their own. Those adverbs have run their course, but here they describe a young band's maturation from victims of their scene and prisoners of their studio into a band willing to tinker with composition and to savor accident. Gone is the hip shtick of past outings, each riff and melody weighed down by polish and f”
One Time Bells
“I'm no fan of geographical stereotypes, residing as I do in the South. Though at a given point of cultural fascination, a band's locality may help them sell records (think Seattle, 1992), there's no guaranteeing they'll sound the way you want them to, as all those who bought Sub Pop albums on the off chance that the bands sounded like Nirvana can attest. We live in culture of near-universal ADD, w”
Two Thousand
“Following 2004's limp The Trial of the Century, New York post-punk revivalists take another stab at respectability.”