"Best Punk Album of the Year 2006" - Just Plain Folks music awards Los Angeles, CA
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Here is what Sara Sherr had to say
in her column in the Philadelphia Daily News:
The boys might get all the ink and the
glory in the local rock scene, but its soul
belongs to the women over 30 who have lived it
and are still living (members of Thee Minks,
Beretta76, Undergirl, the Jane Anchor).
The ladies (and gent) of KeN have a decade of
rocking under their belts, sharing stages with
everyone from the Psychedelic Furs to Ben Folds.
They've been having so much fun, they finally
put their Breeders-meets-Black Sabbath riffage
to record on Parade of Sinners.
Beyond the wisecracking puns of "Sweaty
Psalms" is a wise, bittersweet break-up album.
When frontwoman Jen-Pie Snyder sings with equal
parts contempt and compassion on "Boys Who Rock"
- "I love a boy that rocks, I wanna
self-destruct just like you" - is she laughing
at them or with them?
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Here's what City Paper's
Patrick Rapa had to say about KeN's Parade of
Sinners Hell Is A Place;
The Sinners are Much More Fun
And here is what Doug Wallen from the Philadelphia Weekly had to
say about KeN's Parade of
Sinners
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Carbon 14 review of
Parade of Sinners: After nearly a
decade of playing live and a handful of lineup
changes, longtime Philly favorites KeN have
finally released their first full-length CD. I
can hear everything from a '60s garage-fuzz
stomp to '70s punk to '80s noise over the albums
12 tracks (sometimes all in one song) and a lot
of other stuff in between. So right there you
know you're getting a full palette of rock; a
little something for everybody, if you will. I
like how some of the guitar breaks go in
unexpected directions, finding a new way to
further suck you into the songs, until you're
caught up in a vortex of sound that doesn't let
you go until it's over. If this band were
barbeque, the rhythm section of Jiggles D'Jello
(bass) and L. Gato Diablo (drums) would be a
40-gallon drum of white-hot coals; the dueling
guitars of Bad Cop Hamilton and KRS-10 would be
a big 'ol meaty slab of ribs; and Jen-Pie
Snyder's dark and sweet vocals would be the
sauce that ties it all together. Tasty. -
Larry Kay |