the Toronto Star reviews High Kicks

The Stolen Minks, High Kicks. Muddy, party-starting slop-rock by four saucy ladies from Halifax. Exuberant in its primitivism, High Kicks has a joyous, slightly naive spark that sometimes evokes the sort of tuneful messes to which Calvin Johnson's name is often attached. It's insidiously catchy, good with a put-down – "Your Broken Heart" and "I Hate You" revel in their cattiness – and able to spin pop gold from a tune called "North End Strangler," so there are definitely worse remedies out there for the January blahs.

CKUT TOP LOUD 2008

ckut top 20 LOUD 2008
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menace ruine - cult of ruins - alien8 CC
grails - doomsdayer holiday - temporary residence
earth - the bee made honey in the lion’s skull - southern lord
the melvins - nude with boots - ipecac
om - pilgrimage - southern lord
lustmord - other - hydra head
thisquietarmy - blackhaunter - elevation CC
moha - one way ticket to candyland - rune grammofon
sunn - domkirke - southern lord
burning witch - crippled lucifer - southern lord
harvey milk - the best game in town - hydra head
wrath of the weak - alogon - profound lore
conifer/ocean - split lp - important
venomous concept - poisoned apple - century media
black ships - omens - new romance for kids CC
ascend - ample fire within - southern lord
5ive - hesperus - tortuga
discord of a forgotten sketch - improv session - new romance for kids CC
russian circles - station - suicide squeeze