Kills, The
Apr 4, 2011
The Kills, Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart are back with a new studio album, Blood Pressures, the highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed third album, Midnight Boom. Blood Pressures will be released via Domino on April 5th. For the sessions that became Blood Pressures, Jamie and Alison returned to Key Club Studios, Michigan where they reunited with Midnight Boom engineers Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins. Produced by Jamie Hince, the album was mixed in London by Tom Elmhirst.
With their basic sound intact, searing guitars, driving rhythms and sexually charged lyrical savvy, the 11 tracks on Blood Pressures find The Kills embracing a fuller sound and becoming more adventurous in the studio. Departing from the sparse, angular sound of Midnight Boom, the duo explores complex textures on Blood Pressures. There is heavier instrumentation and layered, huge-sounding harmonies. Alison and Jamie play all the instruments on the album, including piano and mellotron.
Blood Pressures finds The Kills with their swagger and sass intact, but with a new thoughtfulness and depth, even a tinge of wistfulness and vulnerability, to their always compelling songwriting. As one of the most vital, striking bands recording today, The Kills' vividly unique "rock" is at once effortless, edgy and timeless.
Blood Pressures is the 4th LP the band has released, following Midnight Boom (2008), No Wow (2005) and Keep on Your Mean Side (2002).
The first single, "Satellite" is now impacting Alternative.
The duo have revealed a lengthy list of tour dates in North America and Europe. Opening for The Kills for most of the North American dates is Cold Cave and The Entrance Band.
Blood Pressures Tracklisting:
- 'Future Starts Slow'
- 'Satellite'
- 'Heart Is A Beating Drum'
- 'Nail In My Coffin'
- 'Wild Charms'
- 'DNA'
- 'Baby Says'
- 'Last Goodbye'
- 'Damned If She Do'
- 'You Don't Own The Road'
- 'Pots And Pans'
Upcoming Tour Dates:
- April 15 San Diego, CA, House of Blues with Foals
- April 19 Dallas, TX, Granada Theater*
- April 20 Austin, TX, La Zona Rosa *
- April 22 Nashville, TN, Cannery Ballroom*
- April 23 Atlanta, GA, The Masquerade *
- April 24 Washington, DC, 9:30 Club *
- April 26 Boston, MA, Royale Boston *
- April 27 Philadelphia, PA, Theatre of the Living Arts *
- April 29 New York, NY, Terminal 5 *
- April 30 Montreal, QUE, Olympia *
- May 1 Toronto, ONT, Sound Academy *
- May 3 Detroit, MI,The Majestic Theatre *
- May 4 Chicago, IL, Vic Theatre *
- May 5 Minneapolis, MN, First Avenue *
- May 8 Vancouver, BC, Commodore Ballroom *
- May 9 Seattle, WA, Showbox at the Market*
- May 10 Portland, OR, Wonder Ballroom *
- May 11 San Francisco, CA, The Fillmore *
