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The Kills
Listening to The Kills is kind of like overhearing your neighbors have a loud screamy fight through your apartment's thin walls -- only to be pummeled with the sound of a equally raucous reconciliation between the sheets a half hour later.
The Kills are the toast of the buzz-making machinery right now -- a transatlantic duo (she's American, he's English) with charming stage names (VV and Hotel, respectively) that churn out dirty, catchy, stripped-down bluesy rock songs reminiscent of The Velvet Underground and Royal Trux.
Often compared to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Kills share a greater kinship with the previously-profiled Death From Above 1979. Because there's more going on here than being loud for loudness' sake or passing off deconstructed guitar riffs as something new and exciting or the band's trendy, fashionable outfits -- these songs drip with an authentic depravity that Karen O., with her beer-spraying antics, only wishes she could pull off.
The Kills - The Good Ones
The Kills - Pull a U
The Kills' website. Their debut album, Keep on Your Mean Side, is available from Amazon. Their follow-up, No Wow, will be released on 3/8.
Posted by Little Miss Rock'n'Roll at 03.01.05 at 10:02 AM
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