New Album Releases: ASH & ICE (The Kills)

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Artist
The Kills

Genre:
Alternative Rock

Total Time:
50:43

Record Label:
Domino Recording Co

Format:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

Release Date
June 03, 2016

Order links, audio samples
and track list after the jump.

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•  Buy the MP3 from Amazon.com • 
•  Buy the CD from Amazon.com • 
•  Buy the Vinyl from Amazon.com • 

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Product Description: 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 2011’s critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making in part due to Jamie Hince’s five hand surgeries, which resulted in him having to re-learn how to play guitar with a permanently damaged finger. It was during Hince’s 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.

TRACK LIST:

1. Doing It To Death (4:07)

2. Heart Of A Dog (3:46)

3. Hard Habit To Break (3:52)

4. Bitter Fruit (4:14)

5. Days Of Why And How (4:32)

6. Let It Drop (3:15)

7. Hum For Your Buzz (3:18)

8. Siberian Nights (4:53)

9. That Love (2:33)

10. Impossible Tracks (3:41)

11. Black Tar (3:52)

12. Echo Home (5:06)

13. Whirling Eye (3:34)

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