Edinburgh Smash Hits KID CANAVERAL first played Limbo to a rapturous reception in April 2008 (review here), following the release of new single Couldn’t Dance and came back and wowed us again in July – see here. Kid Canaveral make indie-pop music you can sing along to. ‘Debut single, Smash Hits (rel. March 2007) contained everything you’d ever want in a pop song – two storytelling verses (replete with mild swear-words) a “He said/She said” chorus, a hand-clapping middle-eight and a po-going guitar solo that is so jauntily infectious, you’ll break your neck after the third listen. Magic. Upon hearing the song BBC Scotland saw fit to make a music video for BBC 2’s The Music Show – which was broadcast on 19th November 2006. The video plays out the song’s story: Boy meets girl, girl likes boy, boy likes girl but not her taste in music, girl gets pissed off …’
‘Juicy, chewy pop-kids to savour, proving that life still twitches in this indie guitar-pop business.’ (The Scotsman)
