The Kills' Fifth Album on Double LP!
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince return five years after critically acclaimed 2011 album "Blood Pressures".
Over their almost decade-and-a-half career, The Kills have released four records. Each one a restless, reckless enigmatic art statement that bristled with tension, anxiety, sex, unstudied cool and winking ennui, yet not one of them sounded like the previous one. Ash & Ice is the follow up to 2011s critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making in part due to Jamie Hinces five hand surgeries, which resulted in him having to re-learn how to play guitar with a permanently damaged finger. It was during Hinces recuperation from surgery that he first started sketching out what would become the songs for the album. To shake up the writing process, Hince booked a solo trip on the infamous Trans-Siberian Express for inspiration while Alison Mosshart, now residing in Nashville, TN, wrote some of the most affecting, poetically candid lyrics that she ever has, painting word pictures that mine the dangerous terrain between romantic obsession, prophecy and tough love. Where previous albums had an air of detachment and emotional austerity, underpinned by an uneasy self-awareness and unexpressed anger, the 13 songs on Ash & Ice are more understated, less tempestuous and more affecting because of that, exposing the kind of push-pull you feel when you find yourself in a complicated but all-consuming relationship. Ash & Ice is The Kills at their emotionally charged, arresting best. Prepare to be slayed.
Features:
Double LP
Wide-spine jacket with gold-foil imprint
Printed inner-sleeves
Limited time MP3 download code
Selections:
LP 1
Side A:
1. Doing It To Death
2. Heart of a Dog
3. Hard Habit To Break
Side B:
4. Bitter Fruit
5. Days of Why and How
6. Let It Drop
LP 2
Side C:
1. Hum For Your Buzz
2. Siberian Nights
3. That Love
4. Impossible Tracks
Side D:
5. Black Tar
6. Echo Home
7. Whirling Eye
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince return five years after critically acclaimed 2011 album "Blood Pressures".
Over their almost decade-and-a-half career, The Kills have released four records. Each one a restless, reckless enigmatic art statement that bristled with tension, anxiety, sex, unstudied cool and winking ennui, yet not one of them sounded like the previous one. Ash & Ice is the follow up to 2011s critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making in part due to Jamie Hinces five hand surgeries, which resulted in him having to re-learn how to play guitar with a permanently damaged finger. It was during Hinces recuperation from surgery that he first started sketching out what would become the songs for the album. To shake up the writing process, Hince booked a solo trip on the infamous Trans-Siberian Express for inspiration while Alison Mosshart, now residing in Nashville, TN, wrote some of the most affecting, poetically candid lyrics that she ever has, painting word pictures that mine the dangerous terrain between romantic obsession, prophecy and tough love. Where previous albums had an air of detachment and emotional austerity, underpinned by an uneasy self-awareness and unexpressed anger, the 13 songs on Ash & Ice are more understated, less tempestuous and more affecting because of that, exposing the kind of push-pull you feel when you find yourself in a complicated but all-consuming relationship. Ash & Ice is The Kills at their emotionally charged, arresting best. Prepare to be slayed.
Features:
Double LP
Wide-spine jacket with gold-foil imprint
Printed inner-sleeves
Limited time MP3 download code
Selections:
LP 1
Side A:
1. Doing It To Death
2. Heart of a Dog
3. Hard Habit To Break
Side B:
4. Bitter Fruit
5. Days of Why and How
6. Let It Drop
LP 2
Side C:
1. Hum For Your Buzz
2. Siberian Nights
3. That Love
4. Impossible Tracks
Side D:
5. Black Tar
6. Echo Home
7. Whirling Eye
