Goodbye Private Life

The Kiss-Offs are, at heart, a rocking, '60s garage-influenced Texan band whose dedication to thrashy rock is made appealing to {indie pop} audiences mainly through Casio-style keyboards and neatly paired male/female vocals. Goodbye Private Life, which culls a few tracks from the 7 Love's Evidence, treats this sound near-perfectly, alternating between thrashy moments that sometimes fail, but mostly don't, and almost Wolfie-like pop moments (Mock St. Augustine) whose {indie pop} catchiness is impossible to resist. Mock St. Augustine actually contains the album's near-definitive high point: the male voice asks, Give me one more chance, only to be chirpily interrupted by the female response, And you'll f*ck up, a clever little call-and-response whose catchiness summarizes the happily jaded attitude that informs everything the band does. As unassuming and intentionally non-complex as this record is, there really is something vaguely brilliant about it. ~ Nitsuh Abebe, All Music Guide