The Kills - Blood Pressures [2011]

2011-04-14T08:36:22Z

The Kills - Blood Pressures (2011)


01 Future starts slow 04:05 
02 Satellite 04:13 
03 Heart is a beating drum 04:20 		play
04 Nail in my coffin 03:33 
05 Wild charms 01:15 
06 Dna 04:32 
07 Baby says 04:29 
08 The last goodbye 03:42 
09 Damned if she do 03:53 
10 You don't own the road 03:23 
11 Pots and pans 04:35					play

* Alison Mosshart - Vocals, Guitar
* Jamie Hince - Drums, Guitar, Mellotron, Percussion, Producer

Blood Pressures is the fourth studio album by indie rock band The Kills. It is scheduled for release on April 1, 2011 in the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Nordic Countries and Austria. It will be released in the UK on April 4, 2011, and April 5 in the United States. The album was recorded at Key Club studio in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the same studio where the band had previously recorded both No Wow and Midnight Boom. The first single 'Satellite' was released on iTunes on 31st January 2011 and its video debuted on YouTube on 9th February. The song 'DNA' is currently available from their website as a free download if you sign up to the bands mailing list. The album is currently being streamed on their website for free.

First Impressions: - Three years after Midnight Boom, and Alison Mosshart’s stint with the Dead Weather, The Kills have breathed life into a new album—Blood Pressures. Self-produced by the duo’s Jamie Hince, the album will be out April 5th on Domino… – While “Satellite” showcases The Kills’ signature gritty guitars, the beat is a slow and steady one that calls attention to everything else at work, especially the backing vocals sporadically chanting “ooh” over it all. The track will be released as Blood Pressures’ first single on March 28th, but you can stream it here right now. - There is an undeniably aggressive current flowing through the bands’ earlier work, which was a key part of their appeal. Even though this record places much less importance on the in-your-face attitude, the music remains assertive and confident. - If you’ve ever dreamed of Mosshart laying all the cards on the table like Adele, your wish comes true on “Last Goodbye.” With prominent piano, vocals and lyrics, like “I can’t rely/On a dime-a-day low/That don’t go anywhere,” the ballad finds Mosshart at her most defeated. ---myindiesite.com

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The Kills – Midnight Boom (2008)

2009-12-31T11:25:03Z

The Kills – Midnight Boom (2008)


1. U. R. A. Fever
2. Cheap and Cheerful
3. Tape Song
4. Getting Down
5. Last Day of Magic
6. Hook and Line
7. Black Balloon
8. M.E.X.I.C.O.C.U.
9. Sour Cherry
10. Alphabet Pony
11. What New York Used
12. Goodnight Bad

The Kills are:
Alison "VV" Mosshart
Jamie "Hotel" Hince

When American Alison 'VV' Mosshart overheard Jamie 'Hotel' Hince thrashing his guitar in the hotel room above her a partnership was born. Leaving behind their pasts with Floridian punks, Discount, and British rock bands, Blyth Power and Scarfo, the pair started air mailing work tapes across the Atlantic. Overcome with frustration, Mosshartt upped sticks from sunny Florida to grey London and the Kills - a boy, a girl and a drum machine - were born.

Midnight Boom is the pair’s third studio album. As ever, there are elements of PJ Harvey, LCD Sound System (use of the wood block and interesting percussion) but thanks to Spank Rocks' producer, Alex Epton, a more modern funky sound. Not surprisingly, for a rock girl/boy duo, the Kills have been compared to fellow garage minimalists, the White Stripes. However in this case it's the female who leads the vocals. If Brian Molko were a girl, he'd be VV. The first single to come off this, their 3rd album, U.R.A Fever, with it's heavy trip hop beats, only hints at the dirty grungy sound that is more present through. Getting Down and Cheap and Cheerful showcase their sparse, lo-fi, minimalist approach to songwritting as handclapping and drums are played in equal measure.

And yet, they give true noisy, dirty punk rock a run for its money with several fast and furious explosions such as M.E.X.I.C.O and Sour Cherry. The second single, Cheap And Cheerful, doesn't do justice to the album - but with lines like ''I want you to be crazy cos you're boring baby when you're straight'' it still hits all the right post-punk buttons. Much more melodic is the Velvet Underground-influenced Goodnight Bad Morning, all plucked acoustics and soulful vocals.

Like Detroit's Stripes they have taken an anti-careerist, anti-music industry stance leading to accusations of hypocrisy in the face of a recording deal with RCA in the States. In interviews they like to brazenly smoke. It seems they're a band who like to contradict – anti-smoking smokers, anti corporate label pushers - so it's no surprise that Midnight Boom is at once melodic AND screamingly loud. What it isn't however is anything new. That said, the band does a good job with post-Strokes, New York punk rock, and Midnight Boom will please any skinny jean, leather-jacket wearing indie rocker. ---Susie Goldring, BBC Review

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