Friday, April 29, 2011

The Kills- Blood Pressures

Not in love with The Kills new album, Blood Pressures.  Hince and Mosshart introduced their gritty-cool sound coated in sexual tension when they released their first album, Keep on Your Mean Side, in 2003.  No Wow, their sophomore album, seemed like a continuation of their first album, but when Midnight Boom came 
out, I was blown away.  Although there was consistent elementsfrom their previous albums, Mosshart's guttural cries off of Tape Song, and the sweet ballad of Goodnight Bad Morning showed a new potential that I didn't know they possessed.  Unfortunately, Blood Pressures, seems to be more of the same cool-kids grunge rock we were hearing off of their first two albums without the
electric charge. The only song that has
a trace of Midnight Boom's energy is,
Future Starts Slow.

1 comment:

  1. I'm actually loving the pared-down feel, but something more electronic and beat-driven would have been fun for summer.

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