The Kills 'Midnight Boom' album

On Midnight Boom, The Kills – Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart - subtly and organically fuse 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. While the previous two Kills albums have been constructed around their guitars, Midnight Boom is a more beat-driven album, and finds the band broadening their sound.

Midnight Boom is all about looking to the future. “We wanted to be forward-thinking, less conceptual and to dispense of all influences”,explains Jamie. With this in mind, the band invited Spank Rock’s producer Alex Epton aka Armani XXXchange - whose album, YoYoYo, was one of the band’s favorites of the year - to assist with additional production and beats. “He gave us tips on how to make the rhythms more violent and gritty”.

The intrinsic direction of the album comes from a film called “Pizza Pizza Daddio”, a documentary about kids in inner-city schools in 60’s America. Enthused by the songs that they were singing in the playground, Jamie and Alison started building rhythms around the hand clapping songs, and they began to compose songs with a frenetic beat. The dichotomy of the simplistic song formations combined with the dark subject matters became a fascination.

Midnight Boom is burning bright, both timeless and utterly contemporary, a reminder that no one on earth makes rock and roll quite like The Kills.

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