International Badboys Inc. might well be an all boy band. I don’t really know. That is a very boy band-sounding name after all, conjuring up actual recall of an awful but mercifully short-lived mid 90s UK-based boy band called Bad Boys Inc. These guys sound nothing like a boy band.
Bandcamp informs me that International Badboys Inc. is a band – or possibly a solo artist – from Seoul, South Korea, the home of that much-loved global pop phenomenon known as K-Pop. These guys (or guy, even) sound nothing like a K-Pop band either.
What I can tell you for certain, is that this 7-track mini-album, CCOI, released in March of this year in digital form on Bandcamp only (as a name your price), is well worth your time if you’re a fan, as I am, of coldwave, lightweight goth, or 80s-flecked post-punk. Seven short sharp bursts of aural pleasure. Stripped back to tight drum/bass and Cure-esque guitar.
I especially love some of the humour on offer – on tracks like ‘Refrigerator Breeding Project’, and on the hilarious opening track ‘Elementary Loser’, which is based on the premise of a 20-year-old repeating second grade for 15 years because of a crush on a teacher … “you’re just not trying hard enough” … second grade for life!
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