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I’m so happy The Kills are back

but I hope the whole new album won’t be completely soul. I’m going to let these two new songs to grow on me because I appreciate they are trying to evolve their sound but I can hear Jamie got lost in creating the beats rather than adding more guitar and I miss those unique guitar parts ONLY Jamie can come up with (Impossible tracks riff, Baby Says solo, Last day of magic refr, Doing it to death’s hook etc). Alison is still on fire with the passionate vocals but I really, really, really, hope Jamie is not giving up on the guitar as an instrument even more and they won’t turn suddenly into a mellow middle-aged basic pop-soul band, or change their sound so radically like Paramore did. I’m so worried right now the new album won’t give me what I love about them the most, especially after Ash and Ice was such a perfect album, it’s hard to top that (and Midnight Boom of course). They are really on the edge of losing an important part from their sound on Jamie’s part. I mean I want The Kills to sound like The Kills not as Gorillaz or Rihanna’s Anti album.

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pic: Paula Busnovetsky

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Sorry, I had to.

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THE KILLS

I HATE THE WAY YOU LOVE

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I love that when Alison is fangirling for PJ Harvey. They should do a duet. My mind would explode, they are literally my main favorite female voices/singers in the world.

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My opinion about the new Kills album

I ended up writing this on reddit as a comment since there are more people willing to talk about music on that site, so I copy it here now, for those who care with some additions. At first I didn't know what to do with the whole album, then I realized it's good, just different good. I wouldn't say it's their best album ever, rather their trendiest ever, but I get that why the change was needed. I appreciate Jamie's bravery and openness musically, but my favorite Kills albums are still Midnight Boom and Ash & Ice. Nobody sounds like Jamie on guitar. The more Jamie riffs I get the happier I am and there's not a lot left on this album. For the first listen My Girls My Girls made me laugh, because how upbeat it is (on purpose, i guess), the instrumental part is funnily contradicting with the lyric. I get that it has a big potential to be chanted live, but I don't vibe with that song. Maybe I didn't pick the bad times to feel good haha. L. A. Hex is too mellow for me. The rest of the album grew on me. It needs more than one listen for sure. I really love and became addicted with Kingdom Come, Love And Tenderness (this one sounds like a Dead Weather song), and Going To Heaven. The singles are working better in the context of the album than individually. Alison is always on point with the vocals, no matter what's going on in the instrumental parts she's gonna turn it to gold. I knew a song like Blank is going to happen since Impossible Winner landed on the last Dead Weather album. 103 sounds too much like Goodnight Bad Morning, I love the guitar tone though. I've had high expectations about Bullet Sound and funnily it doesn't do a lot to me, it's just ok. However I can hear this is maybe the most well written song from the whole album, but I still waiting for this to click in my brain, maybe a live version will do it. It sounds like if it would be from the Blood Pressures album which I didn't like that much, maybe that's it.

Anyway, I'm excited to hear how the new album is going to sound live especially since Jamie said they're going to play without hired musicians this time and it's going to sound different than the album. My guess is they're gonna use more loops and guitar in the live versions. Edit: I was right, they used loops and more guitar in the live versions, and all those new songs they played in France are sounded better except for L.A. Hex, I don't think that song changes for the better live unlike Better days which was my other less favorite from the album, but I really loved the live version from the ARTE concert. Wasterpiece grew on me the most, I adore that bassline, it makes me excited, and it works so good live as a starter song. Love and Tenderness is the best yet in live too, Alison ate that up just as I expected and New York too. I can't wait to hear the live version of the rest of the new songs with more guitar. (Maybe I'm gonna write a part 2 from this post about the lyrics and some other Kills related stuff)

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(2009)

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Alison Mosshart. The Kills. Black Balloon video.

Un tesorito <3.

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ferocity, prowess… shes got more soul in one strand of her hair than ive got in all my blood

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Jamie Hince, Kate Moss & Alison Mosshart

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Alison Mosshart’s all gold Dior Homme A/W 05 Heeled Boots.

by Olivier Zahm.

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its them again.... its them again.... its them agai