The Sexy Accident play "forceful, even fiery power-pop" "driven by catchy melodies and smart, real-life lyric writing." (The Big Takeover) The band are from Kansas City, Missouri.

Their latest EP, Now That She's Gone, is "a smart, catchy, fulfilling course" (The Pitch) that reveals "a self-contained world of cheating and leaving lovers" (Erasing Clouds). Mantoloking, the band's 2009 full-length produced by legendary Seattle producer Steve Fisk, "addresses the noticeable failings of leaders, family, friendship, and love" and "proffers raw lyrics and bitter memories with aching honesty" (Present Magazine)

At all times, Jesse Kates, the band's singer and guitarist, writes lyrics that "are detailed, seem carefully crafted, and reflect circumstances from life as we know it." (Erasing Clouds) and "sings with a devotion and sensitivity that's sometimes surprising." (The Big Takeover)

In the past, the band have been accused of "evok[ing] the new-wave songwriters of the '80s, clean-cut pop artists like Marshall Crenshaw, Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello" and have been called the midwest's "regional answer to the Fountains of Wayne." (Ink KC)

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