The Kickdrums - Just a game

Album: Just a Game
Released: March 22, 2009
Label: Kickdrums Musik/ Tune Core
Stars: 3.5
Skippable Tracks: 2

Kickdrums...who are the Kickdrums?! They are producer/songwriters from Cleveland that recently released their debut album It's Just a Game. These guys have experience producing for some big shots like 50 Cent, Kid Cudi, Talib Kweli, Kanye, Jay-Z, and others.

Knowing very little about their previously produced music, I dove into "It's Just a Game". To my surprise, these tracks where very different from what I was expecting. There weren't any shotguns being fired in the background, or some idiot saying "Ehhh...ehhh, shyeeeah!", or two bars of music repeating on forever. The songs were very melodic and with different approaches than typically heard on mainstream radio.

The album starts strong with Impatient and continues this way for a few tracks, but quickly gets a little weak. I must admit that it took a couple of listens for me to get into it but slowly I found myself wanting to hear specific tracks a few more times. This was especially true for the tracks called Out to Get me, as well as Slipping away. These are the sixth and seventh track respectively, and are dubbed the catchiest tracks. After these two tracks I loose interest…and it needed a strong finish.

This definitely worth a listen, you can pick which tracks interest you the most. The album left me wishing that there was more content, and less filler.