The Kills - Midnight Boom
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Artist: The KillsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
- U.R.A. Fever
- Cheap And Chearful
- Tape Song
- Getting Down
- Last Day Of Magic
- Hook And Line
- Black Balloon
- M.E.X.I.C.O.C.U
- Sour Cherry
- Alphabet Pony
- What New York Used To Be
- Goodnight Bad Morning
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Free Music Review: "You got to go steal a head!"--?! -- My Favorite Album of 2008!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is so crazy-cool, so crazy-catchy it hurts! The songs are simple and fun and the lyrics are crazy-fun too. Alison Mosshart is a very charismatic singer and drummer/guitarist/vocalist Jamie Hence has a real knack for hooky songwriting - they both do! I wasn't completely sold on this band at first but they totally won me over on this album with its quirky electronic touches, rockin beats and hooky melodies.
Breakdown!
"U.R.A. Fever" - starts off really laid-back with sluggish/cool vocals and soon becomes a steady, swaggering minimalist beat with electronic injections and phone noises. "Laughing like a seagull" - ?! LTM "We are a fever/ We ain't born typical" - so true! ****1/4
"Cheap And Cheerful" - "I want you to be crazy cuz yer boring baby when you are straight" - the album picks up the pace with this great beat and sexy vocals from Mosshart. ****1/2
"Tape Song" - "You got to go steel ahead!" . . . sometimes the lyrics you think you hear are even cooler than the real ones. Quirky, jerky and mechanical, this is neo-New Wave heaven. Mosshart blasts it way over the top! *****+
"Getting Down" - Jamie takes the lead vocal on this groover with subtle, down-tuned acoustic guitar chugging along to an insistent drum beat and "uh-uh-uh-uh-oww-owws." ****
"Last Day of Magic" - the grooviest, most addictive song of the bunch. Great guitar, love the chord changes. "A little tornado/ A little hurricane-o" . . . love the way they just sing whatever the F they want. *****+
"Hook & Line" - one of the heaviest cuts. Full of distorted guitar, it's a decent song but far from the best. ***1/4
"Black Balloon" - a mellower tune and one of the album's best melodies. Interesting percussion and a heavenly "middle 8." *****
"M.E.X.I.C.O." - Kicks off with some clangy, abrasive guitar, this one's punky and pumped full of energy, plus it's punk rock short. ***3/4
"Sour Cherry" - "Am I the only sour cheery on your fruit stand?" Tons of creative percussion sounds (which is pretty much true of all these songs). Love the way they have a blast throwing around all these nonesense vocals. ***3/4
"Alphabet Pony" - This one annoyed me a little when I first heard it (as did a few others) but I'm into it now. Love the squelchy synth bass (or whatever's making those bass lines). ****
"What New York Used To Be" - a wigged-out synth intro morphs into a super-catchy tune with Mosshart rattling off some fast-paced lyrics until she laments about what love/art/drugs/T.V./etc. used to be. This track is totally addictive! *****+
"Goodnight Bad Morning" - the mellowest tune here with acoustic guitar, spare percussion, spare piano and some stray electric guitar. A sweet album closer. ****1/4
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This duo subtly and organically fuses pop, glam, blues, art-punk, and hip-hop in a manner that flits between light and dark, funny and morbid, experimental and cute. The result is a short, sharp twelve track album of sensual, fresh, and atmospheric songs. A reminder that no one on earth makes rock 'n' roll quite like The Kills. Previous albums "No Wow" and "Keep On Your Mean Side" have sold over 70,000.Jamie "Hotel" Hince might have become tabloid fodder thanks to his relationship with Kate Moss, but the third album by The Kills, his band with American vocalist Alison "VV" Mosshart, does relatively little to tidy itself up for mainstream consumption. Midnight Boom is a typically lean set of makeshift punk-blues characterised by Hince's raw, Nick Zinner-style guitar, and Alison's bad-attitude drawl: see the opening "U.R.A Fever", a beat-up call-and-response number reminiscent of Royal Trux than sees Hince and Mosshart swapping sour quips over loping bass and drum machine thud, while "Cheap and Cheerful" sees Mosshart declaring "I want you to be crazy/'Cos you're boring baby when you're straight". The presence of producer Armani XXXchange of Baltimore hip-hop outfit Spank Rock means there's a greater emphasis here on rhythm, often of a synthetic nature: "Alphabet Pony" bumps along on robust, lo-fi drum kicks and bursts of primitive electronics, while "Black Balloon" is a slow-burner that toys with layered percussion built from hand claps, scrapers, and tapped snare. The Kills still have problems with a big, memorable chorus?-assuming, indeed, that was ever their intention--but Midnight Boom is all about grit and grooves, and it does that just fine. ?Louis Pattison
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