Spoils of Youth

"There is a certain desperation that has been transferred from the Kicks’ live shows onto this record; a kind of anxiety that permeates through these songs of hope, desire, love, and hate that was absent in the band’s previous release Be On My Side. The desperation and anxiety coalesce to giveSpoils of Youth an honest and human feeling that seems rare in modern mainstream rock music. The band successfully manages to walk many different musical lines throughout the album, all of which have the ability to elicit a wide variety of emotional responses from the listener.  If it is meant to do anything, Spoils of Youth is meant to make you feel."