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In many ways Kill It Kid going all 19th century on their debut is quite endearing. With the charts currently full of females foisting future sounds onto the masses, this Bath-based five-piece are bucking the trend with glee, making music for the misfits and giving us delicious little murder ballads (‘Private Idaho’) that seem more suited to a forgotten era than the Day-Glo obsessed 21st century. What makes the bluegrass and ragtime rhythms work is their skill at crafting a song, though: the surging ‘Burst Its Banks’ is full of drama, the boy/girl duets between Chris Turpin and Steph Ward fall the right side of sweet and the stabbing fiddles and honky-tonk piano parts add just the right amount of spice. Impressive stuff.

Edwin McFee

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Date/Time	Venue	Town/City	Seetickets	Viagogo
Mar 15, 2012 19:30	The Deaf Institute	Manchester	Buy Kill It Kid Tickets
Mar 18, 2012 09:00	The Louisiana	Bristol	Buy Kill It Kid Tickets from £9
Mar 26, 2012 19:30	Borderline	London	Buy Kill It Kid Tickets from £8
Oct 18, 2012 19:30	Borderline	London	Buy Kill It Kid Tickets from £8