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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
 THE KILLS [EMI]
The world needs more bands like The Kills, and more songs like ‘Cheap and Cheerful’. This cross-Atlantic marriage of British guitar boy Jamie ‘Hotel’ Hince and feisty American lead singer Alison ‘VV’ Mosshart is dirty, sinful and shocking. I love it.
Since receiving some notoriety on the hit TV show Gossip Girl, The Kills have won over a swath of absent-minded fans hell-bent on slutting the night away. It’s so dry, so robotic, so sleazy and so vacant that you’ve gotta love it. There’s a poverty stricken lo-fi element that adds the shimmer of a designer acrylic nail without the nasty smell of overpowering plastic.
‘Cheap and Cheerful’ is what it says it is. It doesn’t try because it doesn’t have to. A lot can happen in two and a half minutes of dirty pop.
3.5/5
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