{"id":2536,"date":"2011-07-26T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2011-07-26T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:20:32","slug":"the-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/the-kills\/","title":{"rendered":"THE KILLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2537\" title=\"The-Kills-Blood-Pressure-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Kills-Blood-Pressure-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Kills-Blood-Pressure-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Kills-Blood-Pressure-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE KILLS <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Blood Pressures <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Domino]<\/p>\n<p>After releasing their third album together, 2008\u2019s <em>Midnight Boom<\/em>, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince took a break from the Kills and found new foils for their outsized personalities. Mosshart spent the hiatus singing for Jack White\u2019s voodoo-punk supergroup the Dead Weather, while Hince found himself a U.K. tabloid fixture by getting engaged to supermodel Kate Moss. While their lives have changed, the duo\u2019s musical chemistry has not. With few exceptions, the Kills\u2019 fourth album is filled with the same kind of swampy, sexy electro-blues bangers they\u2019ve been dropping since 2000. As always, Mosshart plays the tough, shadowy seductress\u2014rock\u2019s answer to Angelina Jolie\u2014while Hince lurks in the background, supplying lean, mechanized beats and delta-punk riffs. The duo shows its range with the sensitive piano ballads \u201cWild Charms\u201d and \u201cThe Last Goodbye,\u201d but who wants a kinder, gentler Kills? It feels way better to blast \u201cSatellite,\u201d their bruising take on 2 Tone ska. \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE KILLS Blood Pressures [Domino] After releasing their third album together, 2008\u2019s Midnight Boom, Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince took a break from the Kills and found new foils for their outsized personalities. Mosshart spent the hiatus singing for Jack White\u2019s voodoo-punk supergroup the Dead Weather, while Hince found himself a U.K. tabloid fixture by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1998,167,1634,1997],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2538,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}