Kits : Lead Us Into Temptation (CD on Pop Crime Records)

Band: Kits
Label: Pop Crime Records
Title: Lead Us Into Temptation

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Band:Kits
Title:Lead Us Into Temptation
Reviewed By:Andrew Carver
Date Published:25/05/2011

Label:Pop Crime Records
Format:CD
Release Year:2011
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Australia’s the Kits start ‘Lead Us Into Temptation’ with a ferocious buzz and a heavy beat. Like many an Aussie band before them, they’re deeply in lovely with American rock’n’roll, particularly the sounds of Detroit (they even have a tune called ‘Detroit Feeling’ to remove any doubt). Even though the Melbourne trio has decamped to England to ply their fortune, they’re staying true to the gospel of ramshackle rock’n’roll.

They jangle things up a bit for ‘Wild At Heart’, a tune more chorus than verse, then kick things up with a plucky rockabilly sound for ‘Salvation’. Rock’n’roll preachers have been singing about salvation since the days of Alex Harvey, if not before, though singer Kit Atkinson sells it better than some; he also manages an ear-pleasing youthful bleat on the title track, backed by a fuzzy lope courtesy of second guitarist Marc Bonet.

The band also has a sturdy collection of riffs to build their songs around, with the occasional burst of guitar frenzy to remind the ears of late great Oz guitarman Rowland S. Howard.

The band also trades in souped up surf on songs such as ‘Modern Love’, which also owes a bit - possibly not by coincidence - to the Modern Lovers.

The album bounds out on ‘Ain’t No Wolf’ - not the album’s strongest point, but a decent slow-burning track that doesn’t quite muster enough climactic force.

Still ‘Lead Us Into Temptation’ is a half-hour well spent for fans of fuzzed up garage rock and bands like BBQ, the Black Lips, the Dirtys, the Reigning Sound, as well as earlier combos like the Nils, Dogmatics and Twin/Tone-era Replacements.

Track Listing:

01) Open Season
02) Wild At Heart
03) Salvation
04) Subpop
05) Lead Us Into Temptation
06) Detroit Feeling
07) Modern Love
08) Girl, You've Got No Remorse
09) Count On Me
10) Ain't No Wolf

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Engaging garage rock on second album from ramshackle-sounding Melbourne trio, the Kits

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