Dark Operative US Vinyl & CDs

Review: Having just reformed earlier this year for their first headline tour in almost a decade, what better time to revisit the criminally underrated and often overlooked fourth full-length from power-pop-punks The All-American Rejects? Originally released in 2012, and following on from the mega successful yet sonically safe When The World Comes Down, the band strived to push themselves further out of their comfort zones than they'd initially ever thought possible. Channelling everything from 60s mod garage rock to orchestral big band jazz, yet all coalesced within the whimsical, sardonic and endearingly earnest penmanship of primary songwriter Tyson Ritter, Kids In The Street is that curious project that offered fans an entirely new, static-shattering chapter that they weren't at the time ready to digest. A decade on, what was once considered their swan song might not clasp onto that title for too long more, yet is in dire need of reappraisal either way.