The Kills’ Blood Pressures brought Alison “VV” Mosshart and Jamie “Hotel” Hince (not the best darts names to be fair) back with their fourth studio album. With the stunning excellence of Midnight Boom way back in 2008, it’s fair to say that there’s been more than enough time for expectations to build for the new album and from the very first listens it sounds like they’d smashed it.
Blood Pressures isn’t a massive departure from their stripped back, lo-fi back catalogue, but it’s got more than enough new sound to stand up for itself on a dark day in the back streets. DNA is bluesy and slow featuring Mosshart on husky vocals, while single Satellites, which you can listen to in the music video below, is dark and brooding, sounding like it could have easily been written for Them Crooked Vultures. The sparse garage rock drum machinery is also back on form in Future Starts Now.
Released on Monday 4th April 2011, Blood Pressures looks set to return The Kills to the critical acclaim that they’ve received for their previous three albums.
Blood Pressures track list:
1. Future Starts Slow
2. Satellite
3. Heart Is A Beating Drum
4. Nail In My Coffin
5. Wild Charms
6. DNA
7. Baby Says
8. The Last Goodbye
9. Damned If She Do
10. You Don’t Own The Road
11. Pots and Pans
Production
The Kills’ Blood Pressures is being released on Domino Records, as with their last two albums, and has been co-produced by Jamie along with Bill Skibbe, who worked with the band on Midnight Boom, at the Key Club studio in Michigan.
