★★★★★
The Mexican band Kinky has always been an intriguing band...and a slightly frustrating one. They have always been capable of coming up with likeable and danceable--and licenseable--tunes at a moment's notice; their very first record featured "Más," which is still played on TV shows and in video games all over the place. But all the best jams on that first album were tempered with boring exercises in downtempo alt.rock...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
In preparation for their third album, Mexican electro-pop outfit Kinky relocated to a beach house in Malibu, CA. The result is "Reina," an album that's as up-tempo and boogie-down as the band's earlier efforts, only this time lead singer Gil Cerezo sounds slightly more comfortable delivering his vocals in English rather than his native Spanish. Kinky remains energetic as ever...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Let us ignore the music briefly and examine the cover of this album. Some clever sod has replaced all the bands feet with those of various animals. It is possible to discern chicken, horse, zebra and duck, but the white clawed thingummies on the second one from the end? Who knows? Maybe some kind of rat.The band themselves are a talented lot with a vague sense of style and another couple of albums under their collective belts...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-16
★★★★★
A wildly boring, bass-heavy, lyrically light attempt to make a punk-free, pointless, Spanish Asian Dub Foundation. A perfect example of how easy it is to ruin the spirit that made it appealing in the first place. Sure to find a home with the Crescent Street/Ibiza crowds. (Dylan Young)
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
A clash of many a thing, on many a level, Kinky has remained obscure to the public but has won Latin video music awards and been a hit with movie makers and advertisers. Cake's John McCrea also appears for a feature on a funky track called The Headphonist. Their sound is a clash of organic and digital, electro beats and live instruments, a sort of Latin-rock-house with bilingual vocals and strong influences from both below and above the U.S.-Mexico border...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
On first listen, Kinky are about as south-of-the-border and muy caliente as a college band from Indiana ? with grinding machines and chirruping effects, they seem determined to sound as Norte Americano as possible. But this band (from Monterrey) is not in cultural denial, and its explosions of percussion, subtly picked guitar and witty pan-linguistic vocals make Atlas the most original spin on indie-pop in years...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
The eponymous 2002 debut from Kinky received plaudits for its startling fourth-world collision of electro-pop, Latin percussion and sundry ethnic elements borrowed from all over the place. This follow-up doesn't pack quite the same spicy punch, perhaps because producer Thom Russo (Audioslave, System Of A Down) is at the helm this time: accordingly, the debut's quirky, multi-faceted pieces have been for the most part supplanted by more direct, hard-rock dynamics...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Synth melodies meet Mexican alternative on this new record from much loved Latinos Kinky, who crossed the border to record their new album in the hills of Los Angeles. Coming off a super popular KCRW Sounds Eclectico show at the California Plaza in downtown LA, these colorful, crowd-pleasin', fast-playin' bad boys surpass their reputation for crossing genres and manage to capture the energy of their live shows on their third album, Reina. It pulses, pounds, grinds and grooves down deep...
- www.urb.com
2010-02-13
★★★★★
It's long been asked: can destruction breed fortune? What expansion does loss create, or, further, necessitate? Southern Californian storms enveloped Kinky's instruments in mud and other debris, forcing the band to McGyver unconventional solutions including "clips, duct tape, random scraps of metal, branches" and anything else at their disposal at the time...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
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