Fish has a few big names attached, but it's not an onslaught of guests. If you've been paying attention to these guys over the past few years, almost everything here will sound familiar. The production, mostly from Cool Kid Chuck Inglish, is straightforwardly spacey, a crisp and bright take on minimal mids drum-machine boom.
Inglish and Mikey Rocks have voices so flat that they usually sound bored, and they're less interested in punchlines than they are in matter-of-fact situational boasts, many of which have a weird patina of nostalgia to them. Instead, the album illustrates the absurd things a rap group has to do to release an actual wide-circulation retail album in They've made the leap to corporate patronage with their personalities totally unchanged; the move hasn't audibly affected their personality as a group.
It does have to be said, however, that the gigantic Mountain Dew logo on their cover art is a pretty bad look. The real move that the group makes on When Fish Ride Bicycles is a slight step away from minimal 80s rap toward squelchy s funk. Most of the tracks here come with gooey Zapp-sounding keyboards, a slick melodic sound that gives their tracks an extra dimension. It's a sound that works for them in small doses, but when they go back to it a bit too often, the trick robs their simple, affectless sound of some of its power.
Melody and warmth aren't Chuck Inglish's strong suits; he sounds best when he's stripped his tracks back to their barest elements, as he did on The Bake Sal e EP.
But these flourishes are nowhere near enough to drown the album. The Cool Kids' greatest asset is that their music is fun; it sounds good at parties, or on summer-afternoon drives, or at corporate-sponsored live shows. That doesn't change with When Fish Ride Bicycles. For a couple of tracks, they link up with the Neptunes, the producers whose dizzy Triton experiments probably showed them what a resourceful mind can do with a drum machine.
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