Black Kids - Hurricane Jane
[Mercury]

Fresh from their slot on the Vice Live tour earlier this year and currently doing the rounds on their first date-packed European tour, Black Kids have a busy, but surely promising time ahead of them.

For a band from Florida, the Black Kids latest release 'Hurricane Jane' has really done its 'best of British sounds' homework. It’s shifty, tribal opening morphs into a purposefully kitsch eighties homage; from its synth-speckled verse to the layered girly backing vocals.

However, adding to the mixture Reggie Youngblood's understated, occasionally woe-filled Doherty type vocal and some off-the-cuff quality oddments, this track comes off as mysteriously cool, much in the same way as Roxy Music always did.

Shunning the strike-a-pose pretension of typical indie dance floor tracks and wearing its heart on the outside, ("It's Friday night and I aint got nobody...") 'Hurricane Jane' explains why Black Kids are being ushered enthusiastically along the rocky road to recognition.