Sidekick Kato – Des Plaines 7″
Prior to the fantastic ‘First Class Chump’ LP, Sidekick kato released this 3 song 7″. The first two songs are a bit faster/more straight forward than most of the songs on the LP. The B-side features ‘Elephant Shoes’, a song that more resembles the direction they were headed for their full length. Thankfully ‘Elephant Shoes’ was re-recorded for ‘First Class Chump’ as it is one of the high points on the LP. I think my only complaint is that the guitar sounds like it was recorded inside of a tin can. The fourth ‘song’ is quite the trainwreck.
As a proud owner of First Class Chump and I Think I’m In Love, I was surprised when I found out Excel was an original Sidekick Kato track while listening to Apocalypse Hoboken – Inverse, Reverse, Perverse …. I can only imagine what a polished up version of these tracks would sound like, wish they would’ve added Excel and Seesaw to the First Class Chump LP… Thanks for sharing.
I agree the quality on those to releases is night and day.