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- Portland, OR 97205
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The Kills
Midnight Boom
Midnight Boom bleeds color, excitement, and emotion into VV and Hotel's music, transforming it into daring, dirty pop that is unrepentantly ... (Click the album for more)
- $13.95 CD
- Vinyl out of stock
The Kills
Blood Pressures
The Kills returned three years after making Midnight Boom -- arguably their best album, and certainly their most immediate -- with Blood Pre... (Click the album for more)
- $11.95 CD
- Vinyl out of stock
The Kills
Keep On Your Mean SideOn their full-length debut, Keep on Your Mean Side, the Kills deliver on the promise of their Black Rooster EP, serving up more of their sneering, sexy blues-punk with a little more polish and premeditation. It's easy to lump them in with the current crop of garage rock revivalists -- and granted, the band bears more than a passing resemblance to the White Stripes' bluesy sound and boy-girl lineup -- but Keep on Your Mean Side suggests that the Kills' true lineage comes from a darker, more poetic strain of rock. Naturally, the Velvet Underground are a major influence, particularly on the ominous, droning guitar work that forms the backbone of "Kissy Kissy." On songs like "Superstition," shades of punk poetesses like Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, and (especially) PJ Harvey color VV's sultry, commanding delivery, which is about as far from her work with her former band, Discount, as it's possible to get with the same set of vocal cords. And on "Fuck the People" and other charged duets between her and guitarist/vocalist Hotel, the Kills have some of the Bonnie & Clyde romance that made Royal Trux so great. --Heather Phares, AllMusic