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| Artist: The Kills
Label: Domino
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $9.30
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 5028
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 164
UPC: 801390016424
EAN: 0801390016424
ASIN: B0012IWHKU
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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 I'm bored of cheap and cheerful... April 11, 2008
Xtian Thomas
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got this album last week and, listening to it, I couldn't find a single song I wanted to skip - it's that good, but it's also that brief (around 35 minutes). Brevity is a good thing in this case - one of those albums that you'll be putting on to get going and before you know it, you're singing along because it gets your blood going and your feet tapping and you're listening to it lying down and the muscles in your legs start to ache because of the beats (it can get kind of obsessive listening to it, as well) getting your toes to tapping. Maybe it's because of their move to Domino (Clinic and Franz Ferdinand have been once and/or future lablemates), but this is their most rhythmic and quite possibly one of the sexiest albums of the still young year (The Breeders and Portishead are in the Final Four here).
they did good job!! May 19, 2008
Steve Wong (Kowloon, Hong Kong Hong Kong)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm really like this album more than the one before, they are improved and make me surprise some new elements they put to their music now.
 Stop Me Before I Do Something Desperate! August 20, 2008
Gavin B. (St. Louis MO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't help myself. I need to get in to a 12-step program to stop listening to the Kills latest offering, "Midnight Boom." I'm becoming a crazed zealot who wants to take hostages, tie them up in my basement and force them to listen to "Getting Down" over and over until the get the "big picture." Know what I mean?
The Kills have been around about 5 years and have released two first rate albums on Rough Trade but their latest release "Midnight Boom" is the deal closer for the Kills. As of late the Kills have matured into a ramshakle, kinetic force of nature capable of explosive live performances.
Now I'm waiting for the Kills to sell out so I can act snarky and give them a good flogging for going mainstream. I must be a seriously demented person to harbor such a negative attitude.
Their song lyrics are often clever and funny. Their sense of vintage thrift shop style has earned them a couple of fashion spreads in major fashion magazines. That being said, the Kills are not bloodless posuers. There is a gritty and electrifying substance that triumphs over the Kills' keen sense of style.
I spend a lot of time listening to new music and reviewing groups but the Kills stood right up a grabbed me and wouldn't let go. I've always gone for quirky musical types with strange and often sinister agendas. The Kills music is an eccentric hybrid of 2nd generation punk, delta blues, funk, garage rock fused with eletronic beats and pop hooks.
The Kills were right up my alley. Of course my musical "alley" is strewn with old Rev. Gary Davis 45 RPM records, a first pressing of the Lyres not so big hit "Don't Give It Up" and countless yard sale mark-down musical treasures by the such cornerstones of obscurity as Ray Condo and the Hardrock Goners, Lou Miami and the Kozmetix, and Joe Bird and his Field Hippies.
Jamie Hinson's slashing and often dissonant guitar rythyms sound like that of many of the earliest post-punk, anti-guitar heroes like Andy Gill of Gang of Four, Keith Levine of Public Image and Roger Miller of Mission of Burma. The object of the game is to use the guitar more as a percussion instrument to wrap the music in sonic wall of rhythym.
The duo sings a lot of songs in loose harmony which recall the full throttled, take-no-prisoners vocal harmonies of John Doe and Exene Cervenka in the glory days of X, Los Angeles' premier punk band. Female vocalist Alison Mosshart has done her homework in musicology and would be equally comfortable singing an old blues/jazz standard like "St. James Infirmary", as she would be singing an old Velvet Underground tune like "Waiting for the Man." The added harmonies by Jamie are just icing on the cake and just one more thing that adds up to the Kill's distinctive trademark sound.
I've always disliked the sound of prepared riddims of a drum machine. The overall effect usually sounds like a metronome, but the Kills intergrate the electronic beats into their arrangements with such organic care that it actually enhances their sound.
Okay that's it. You've been given fair warning. This album isn't for the feint of heart and I'm an object lesson of just how one innocuous music purchase can transform you into an abuser on the fast track to a musical detox, in a matter of days.
RECOMMENDED TUNES: URA Fever, Getting Down, Cheap and Cheerful, New York Used to Be & Black Ballon.
Wow! Stunning. May 4, 2008
Michael Glass (Redmond, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listen to KEXP from my car on the way in to work because I am privileged to live in Seattle. John Richards of John in the Morning claimed this is the best album of the year so far, so I bought it. The lyrics are catchy (albeit sometimes incomprehensible)- the female voice is a bit like Shirley Manson of Garbage. The guitar has the raw power of a John Lennon stratocast solo on some tracks. The rythm is pure energy - reminds me of the first time I listened to Gang of Four. The songs are short, but addicting. I am an instant fan and plan to turn all my friends on to this instant classic.
This CD doesn't disappoint!
BUY IT NOW!!! May 26, 2008
wnzdazchld
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After a free song download from iTunes, I was hooked and downloaded the whole thing. This is on constant rotation on my iPod. Such an all around great cd.
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