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Paul Moody

"18 tracks bristling with ideas and imagination": Redd Kross come full circle on melody-stuffed eighth album

Redd Kross: Redd Kross cover art.

It’s been 45 years since Jeff and Steve McDonald – then aged 15 and 11 respectively – decided to throw their floppy hat into the rock’n’roll ring. However, despite influencing countless bands along the way – from Nirvana to the Lemon Twigs – Redd Kross's back catalogue is frustratingly sporadic, the power-pop brilliance of late-80s/early-90s albums Neurotica, Third Eye and Phaseshifter submerged in the grunge tsunami. 

While the intervening years have been filled with all manner of intriguing side projects, the sense that the mainstream was missing out on the brothers’ melodic genius became clear with 2019’s Beyond The Door.

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