10 1993-2003 Ten Years Of New York NY

10 1993-2003 Ten Years Of

K's Choice

Sony, 2004

REVIEW BY: Vish Iyer

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 12/29/2004

There are certain bands whom you have no clue of, but have seenor heard one of their songs at random somewhere, and thought theywere good, and forget about them completely, only to realize thatyou know this song, and it is nice, when you confront it again thenext time. Still you don't know the band behind the song, and don'tcare much to find out about them either: K's Choice is such anoutfit.

An example: the song"Virgin State Of Mind" by K's Choice,featured on one of the episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer: I bet you didn't know about this,did you?

This Belgian act, led by the brother-sister duo of Gret andSarah Bettens have been in the music scene for quite sometime, andten years and just four records later, they are here with a "bestof" compilation, titled 10 1993-2003 Ten Years Of . It is only surprising that theband could come up with an anthology of eighteen songs -- three ofthem being unreleased singles -- with just four studio LPs backingthem up.

This album is for the aforementioned many, who have hummed a"K's Choice" song or two, without having had the proclivity to buythe record, for the fear of investing in a band they have neverheard of. 10 is the typical guitar-based alternative rock record,which one can sing along with -- whilst it plays in the background-- without giving much serious thought to the music. It is a bunchof songs that aren't too much of anything.