The Kills - Midnight Boom

In the three years between No Wow and Midnight Boom, it sounds like The Kills discovered that having fun is actually much cooler than searching for haughty minimalist rock perfection. While Keep On Your Mean Side and No Wow's sinuous snarls were about as savagely spare and sexy as it's possible to get, their minimalism bordered on monochromatic. Midnight Boom bleeds color, excitement, and emotion into Vv and Hotel's music, transforming it into daring, dirty pop that is unrepentantly glamorous and tender, high-end and trashy, and it glitters like diamonds mixed with broken glass. Read More