The Kills is an English-American indie rock band formed by American singer Alison Mosshart ("VV") and British guitarist Jamie Hince ("Hotel"). They signed with Domino and their first four albums, Keep On Your Mean Side No Wow , Midnight Boom , and Blood Pressure all hit the UK album chart . Ash & amp; Ice , their fifth and latest studio album was released on June 3, 2016 and reached the Top 20 UK album chart.
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Careers
Both Mosshart and Hince played in other bands before they formed The Kills in 2001. Mosshart was previously the band's lead singer Floridian punk band, while Hince performed in the English rock bands of Fiji, Scarfo and Blyth Power. Mosshart meets Hince when his band is on a tour of England where "he lives upstairs flat from where I live" in London. Mosshart insisted on forming a band with Hince and "really survived, and finally we started writing and he pushed me". Hince gave him a four-track cassette recorder and insisted he write music as well as lyrics while on tour with his band. The two continued to exchange music ideas by sending their respective tapes. The discount was dissolved in 2000, and Mosshart moved to London in the same year. Before setting the name, Mosshart and Hince appear as "VV" and "Hotel", respectively, Hince explains that they "named each other from the top of our heads as a stupid romantic ode to the pop art scene". The duo chose The Kills because "it sounds like a band that can exist in every decade".
Using ideas on the cassette, Mosshart and Hince started writing minimalist songs with the help of a drum machine. In 2001 they showed off their new songs on demo tape; However, this couple avoids the approach of major record labels. Recording as a VV and a Hotel, they donate the song "Restaurant Blouse" to a compilation If Twenty-First Century Nothing Will Be Required to Create it . Shortly after this they recorded their debut release, Black Rooster EP , which saw a release on British indie label Domino Records and was picked up for distribution by Dim Mak Records in the United States.
It's a good lo-fi in terms of music and aesthetics. The tape featured photos of Mosshart and Hince taken in photo booths rather than professional photography. Musically, the tape was a rare rock/blues workshop, lo-fi. Although the band cites Captain Beefheart, PJ Harvey, LCD Soundsystems, The Velvet Underground, The Fall, Patti Smith, Suicide and Royal Trux as a direct influence, the music press has very comparing it to The White Stripes.
Stay On Your Side
After the international tour, they entered Toe Rag Studios, where White Stripes has recorded their album Elephant , to record their debut album Keep on Your Mean Side , mostly on the 8- track, in just 2 weeks. Distributed in the US and UK by Rough Trade Records, the album is similar to the EP style, veering off Velvets-esque stomping "Wait" to noisy, dirty garage punk punk "Fuck the People" and dark psychedelia of "Kissy Kissy". Records are well received by the music press, although the comparison of White Stripes will not disappear.
Maintaining anti-kariris attitude, anti-music industry, bands rarely given interviews. Instead, they got the music press to come to them with their live performances (which also included a drum machine). Mosshart chain-smoking while singing, rarely speaking to the audience; at the New York City show following the smoking ban in public, Mosshart climbed onto the stage with three bottles of water, lit a cigarette and started smoking continuously from the first song to the last note of the set. In 2004, Mosshard and Hince bought a house together in Dalston.
In 2005, "Monkey 23" was used in "De battre mon coeur s'est arrÃÆ'ªtÃÆ' Â ©", the film by Jacques Audiard. It is played during closing credits. It was also featured in season three of Peaky Blinders (TV series).
In 2006, "Kissy Kissy" was used in Children of Men , a film by Alfonso Cuarón. It was played on Avalon Radio and described as "a blast from the past all the way back to 2003, a wonderful moment when people refuse to accept the future just around the corner".
No Wow
Their second album, No Wow , was released by Domino Records on February 21, 2005. Showing meaner sounds, less "guitar rock sounds", recording embraced post punk influences and sounded even more stripped than < i> Keep on Your Mean Side . Originally written to be performed on Moog, the band was forced to change direction and record it primarily using a guitar after Hince's Moog was broken and can not be repaired before entering the studio. A 40 minute DVD documentary is included with a limited number of copies and features interviews, shows, and road image footage on the tour.
The first single, "The Good Ones", from No Wow , was released on February 7, 2005 and reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart, which is their highest chart on the chart to date.
The Mosshart feature in the Placebo album title song Meds , was released on March 13, 2006 in the UK, and on April 4, 2006 in the US. She also featured on the album Primal Scream Riot City Blues.
Midnight Boom
Midnight Boom was released in March 2008.
The music is used on many American TV shows, including 90210 . Many song choices from albums are featured on the famous Gossip Girl TV series, and also, their "Sour Cherry" song is featured as a soundbed for Season Two's official trailer. "Sour Cherry" is also featured on footloose trailers, as well as in 2008 rom-com The House Bunny.
The album also achieved a new mainstream success for the band with various TV shows in the UK; appeared in Later With Jools Holland , Friday Night with Jonathan Ross , T4 , The Album Chart Show , Sound , Live From Abbey Road , and From The Basement .
On October 21, 2008, "Cheap and Cheerful" was used at the House event during the episode "Lucky Thirteen" episode. "Cheap and Cheerful" can also be heard on the soundtrack of NHL 09 . It was later used in Fendi TV commercials for the perfume "Fan in Fendi" (2010). "U.R.A. Fever" was played during the love scene in the 2010 movie The Losers . Only the chorus of the song is played. "U.R.A. Fever" was heard in the 2010 movie Welcome to Rileys , and appeared on the soundtrack. This is also heard in the 2011 film Catch.44 (partly) and Movie Detain 2012. The bonus song "Night Train" appeared in the 2009 remake of Friday The 13th movie.
Blood Pressure
On September 11, 2009, it was announced on the band's MySpace page that they started working on their fourth studio album even though no release date has been set.
"Black Balloon" from their "Black Balloon EP", released in 2009, is featured in the 2nd Season episode of The Good Wife , "Net Worth", on February 15, 2011.
Kills' fourth studio album, Blood Pressures , was released in April 2011. The video for the first single from Blood Pressures, Satellite, was released on February 9, 2011, followed by Future Starts Slow, Baby Says, The Last Goodbye and Wild Charms in September 2012. "Future Starts Slow" is also used in the promotion for the episode "The Wait Is Almost Over" from the hit TV series True Blood (season 4). Songs from the same album "Damned If She Do" were also used in the third season's Vampire Diaries promotion, and have received positive reviews from fans. "The Last Goodbye" is used in the 2012 movie Just Like A Woman, starring Sienna Miller. The song 'Baby Says' is used on one of the radio stations in the video game 'The Crew' by Ubisoft.
"Future Starts Slow" appeared in the trailer for the 2012 action thriller Contraband, the March 2012 episode Vampire Diaries, in promotion and, starting with the second episode, used as the theme music for the series TV 2012 Political Animals (miniseries) , used towards the end of episode 16, season 2 of Person of Interest and featured in season 1 of Altered Carbon .
They donate Dream covers for the Fleetwood Mac tribute compilation "Just Say You Want Me" , set for release on August 14, 2012 via Hear Music and Concord Music Group.
In September, the two publish photo books Dream & amp; Drive , created along with photographer Kenneth Capello. This coincides with the exhibition at the Milk Gallery, London.
Ash & amp; Ice
Paris Spleen: The Kills Live at L'Olympia , their show film from November 2011 was released on September 20, 2013 in partnership with the French apparel equipment Company.
The Kills are set to go on a small American tour with Queens of the Stone Age in December 2013. That same year, Hince suffered an injury in his left hand when the car door closed on it. He lost the use of his middle finger and had to have a number of operations. This results in changes in play style and equipment.
Shortly after the announcement of the event, the band's record label, Domino Records confirmed that the duo was working on the next album. In May 2014, Mosshart said that they are looking for new sounds and that this new album will be completely different from the others. He notes that " You never know what will happen with a note when you're writing.It can be done abruptly in two months, or it could take another year.You get this tangent line , and you find a new direction.You can follow the scent wherever you take it.Sometimes it takes a long time.Sometimes very fast. "
The Kills are part of the line-up for Coachella 2016. The fifth studio album Kills, Ash & amp; Ice , released on June 3, 2016. A new single titled "Doing It to Death" was released in March 2016. The duo embarked on a long world tour, but were forced to cancel the European festival date after Mosshart suffered from pneumonia.
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Influences
The band has quoted Royal Trux, PJ Harvey, Velvet Underground, Sleater-Kinney, Fugazi, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Pixies, Bikini Kill and Sonic Youth as its effects.
Discography
Studio album
- Stay On Your Side Means (2003)
- Not Wow (2005)
- Midnight Boom (2008)
- Blood Pressure (2011)
- Ash & amp; Ice (2016)
References
External links
- Official website
- Murder in Dim Mak Records
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