Check it - sounds great, methinks.

Available 4/5/2011.

Looking forward to the new album.

I think they work better live though.

Great band, I said hello to Kate Moss the last time they played Edinburgh, she was wearing wellies and a wax jacket...hehe.

Here are some BBCR1 session clips. http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog...s/b00zlfd0

TheDigitalGardener said:

Here are some BBCR1 session clips. http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog...s/b00zlfd0

Whoa. Videos are "Not Available In Your Area" That's only happened to me once or twice before in all the years I've been online.

Yeah, they're great live. Allison is incredible live with Dead Weather, too. To be honest, I think I could watch her sit onstage painting her nails black.

For better or worse, depending on how you feel about such things (I think for the better), The Kills are getting a lot more attention due to Allison's participation in The Dead Weather. I just hope it rolls over into record sales and more people at their shows.

Cerebus said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Here are some BBCR1 session clips. http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog...s/b00zlfd0

Whoa. Videos are "Not Available In Your Area" That's only happened to me once or twice before in all the years I've been online.

Yeah, they're great live. Allison is incredible live with Dead Weather, too. To be honest, I think I could watch her sit onstage painting her nails black.

For better or worse, depending on how you feel about such things (I think for the better), The Kills are getting a lot more attention due to Allison's participation in The Dead Weather. I just hope it rolls over into record sales and more people at their shows.

Yes, I think Allisons involvement with TDW can do The Kills no harm in terms of sales, time will tell.

I have seen The Kills 3 times now, and they really put on a great show and make a lot of noise for two people. I see them again in May, bigger venue this time (though not by much). Good times.

Sorry about the video.

It's okay. Not their best album by a long shot. I've listened to it once all the way through and thats really all I care to hear of it.

Wowugotit said:

It's okay. Not their best album by a long shot. I've listened to it once all the way through and thats really all I care to hear of it.

It may or may not be their best, that's up to individual tastes. But I'm surprised by your last comment. I've listened to it several times and I'm quite sure I'll listen to it many more. Its definitely MUCH better than listen once and throw away. I think that attitude has more to do with the listener than the music.

http://www.spinner.com/2011/04/04/the-kills-blood-pressures/

The Kills Play Up Alison Mosshart's Vocal 'Vulnerability' for 'Blood Pressures'

For the Kills' latest album, 'Blood Pressures,' guitarist Jamie Hince took a completely different approach to writing songs than he had for the band's previous albums. With Alison Mosshart on the road with the Dead Weather, Hince was in the mood to experiment, so he picked up the 1935 Gibson L-00 acoustic guitar he had bought at a Brooklyn vintage guitar store for work on another project.

"I never wrote on an acoustic guitar before. I bought the guitar about four years ago," he tells Spinner. "I had old, crappy nylon string ones before. But I bought this guitar, fell in love with it and fell in love with playing it as I wrote for the new record. It was really just fun. I'd sit around with friends, drink wine and just keep playing, playing, playing."

That wasn't the only difference in the way the duo wrote the songs for this album. Although Mosshart and Hince shared the songs they were writing, it was more happenstance because of the physical distance between them.

"The way we both write songs is we're in the same place but we're both in different rooms where we can't hear each other and writing at the same time," Mosshart told Spinner in March. "Then we meet up and play each other what we're doing, and then there's a response. It didn't seem that weird to me writing in a hotel room halfway across the world because I would just see him and show him stuff when I saw him."

Although Hince didn't have any preconceived notions about the direction of the upcoming album, which he says "came together gradually," the songs 'Satellite' and 'Don't Own the Road' gave him an idea of how he wanted to shape the music.

"I really didn't have to sit down and write songs," he says of the process. "I worked on [ideas] that were already there. Alison was off on tour with Dead Weather so I had a lot of time coming up on stuff on my own. I wanted it to have some kind of dark, musical sound. I used a lot of low, low end on that. I wanted it to sound like dancehall music."

Credit that direction to Hince's fondness for Roxy Music.

"I love that whole multi-layered thing," he says. "At first glance, the Kills seem the opposite of that. But I was digging out a Mellotron and using different sounds. After four records, you get tired of what guitars sound like."

The one thing that Hince hadn't tired of was Mosshart's vocals. Although her time with the Dead Weather was a positive, giving her what Hince calls "a voice much stronger and more confidence vocally," that was a bit of a double-edged sword.

"For me, I like the vulnerable side of her voice," he says. "I don't just like the loud rock voice. To me, using that is almost like cheating. I like the vulnerability in her voice, when it cracks and wavers on words. If anything, Dead Weather made me want to steer [the Kills' sound] away from rock. I didn't want this to be a straight rock record."

Although he praises the Dead Weather, Hince says there are other aspects to the band he isn't keen to adopt, such as the long world tours on which he says Mosshart thrives.

"She adores being on the road, and I was going through a period when I was really enjoying my life [off the road]," he says. "I can do 14 or 15 months on the road, but when they keep adding and adding to the end and you're out there 20 months, you go crazy. You phone home and tell your girlfriend away another month or two months and it's suicide.

"I love playing, but you get to the point, if you have a good life fulfilled elsewhere, that you notice 23 hours of doing nothing every day and it starts to really gets to you. But performing makes me do this. I love, love, love it. But I am envious of bands in the 1960s, when they had world tours that lasted four months."

I bought the cd and limited edition vinyl today.

Loving it.

Cerebus, you should check out Royal Trux, I think you would like them.

They are/were an American duo who played scuzzy rock n roll on junk shop instruments and broken keyboards.

They really had an illustrious career, and 10+ albums. I remember reading a Kills interview from their first album promotion, and Jaimie saying how he loved Royal Trux. Up until that point I thought I was the only one who had heard of them LOL.

Check out albums, Cats & Dogs, Accelerator, Pound For Pound and Royal Trux.

I started a Royal Trux thread a couple of months back, and unsurprisingly it sank without trace....haha.

http://prince.org/msg/8/351957

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I remember hearing of/about Royal Trux many times. Always thought it was a good band name. For whatever reason, as I really have no idea why, I never checked them out. I'll definitely do so.

Cerebus said:

I remember hearing of/about Royal Trux many times. Always thought it was a good band name. For whatever reason, as I really have no idea why, I never checked them out. I'll definitely do so.