Entertainment

Maybe it’s important. Maybe it’s not, but look at the guy’s mustache. Immediately, there should be a few folks who are gonna be so completely turned off by that, that listening to the Cardiac Kidz album is removed from the realm of possibility. If that mustache all on its own isn’t enough, the ‘z’ at the end of this San Diego band’s name is probably enough to put you off. Hopefully not, though.

The rash of auld tyme punk acts finding their fortunes anew after a reissue really hasn’t turned up too many bands that are utterly indispensible and anthemic. That might be a bit hyperbolic for the Cardiac Kidz, but despite that mustache and the ‘z,’ these Californians were able to suss out a proper intersection where punk, pop and snot meet in a weird harmony not found in too many places. It’s here on Get Out, though.

Being included on a few tossed off Killed By Death compilations, the Cardiac Kidz earned this cd reissue casting the band as lost pop stars. Again, that mustache helps. But what’s a bit odd – and we’ll get to the almalgam of sounds here in a minute – is the fact that the Cleveland Browns’ used the nickname Cardiac Kids during the eighties. Obviously, no real connection exists. But it’s a funny coincidence seeing as Bob Golic probably wasn’t into punk too much.

Whatever. He shoulda been.