Black Kids have returned with their new track "Obligatory Drugs", the first release since their 2008 debut album Partie Traumatic. The single appears on their forthcoming sophomore album Rookie, out September 15. Black Kids are also launching today a pre-sale on Pledge Music, where fans can pre-order signed physical product as well as special, limited edition items Black Kids will be rolling out between now and release date.
"Much like Odysseus and Co., on our journey to make the 'difficult second album,' s got rough," Youngblood says. "A few of us heeded the siren call of 'side projects.' Tumultuous relationships and periods of Imposter Syndrome also impeded progress. Worst of all, I couldn't write a chorus. And for a band that worships The Chorus, this was problematic."
Pre-order Rookie here. After touring exhaustively in support of Partie Traumatic, Youngblood and his bandmates - bassist Owen Cohen and keyboardists/vocalists Ali Youngblood and Dawn Watley - resettled around the U.S., in Brooklyn, Portland, and Athens, Georgia. Reggie started a power-pop group called Blunt Bangs. Owen released records on Kill Rock Stars under the moniker Gospel Music. Ali and Dawn sang and played and crafted. In late 2015, the four convened in Athens to make "Obligatory Drugs". The album was recorded and coproduced by Andy LeMaster at Chase Park Transduction.Videos