The Kills - No Wow (Domino Records 21/02/05) - Album Review

The Kills

The Kills - No Wow (Domino Records 21/02/05) - Album Review

The Kills
No Wow
(Domino Records 21/02/05)

This offering pours rocket fuel onto the fiery debate that ensued after the provocative duet VV and Hotel seductively stole into the limelight with 2003’s debut album; ‘Keep On Your Mean side’. For some it was a blues rock breath of fresh air, for others it was falseness produced by two try-hards. The more main stream approach of previous single; ‘The Good Ones’ has done nothing to resolve the issue, critics were still divided.

The Kills - No Wow (Domino Records 21/02/05) - Album Review

The seductively brusk Patti Smith like vocals of VV return, as she tells tales of life on the seedy side; borne out in the ‘I Hate The Way You Love’ and ‘I Hate The Way You Love Part 2’, complemented by grinding guitars and a haunting drum machine beat. The dark horse track is ‘Love Is A Deserter’, as scything cynicism is delivered with aplomb and is the album’s equivalent to ‘Fuck The People’.

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David Adair

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