Music

The Kills announce album name and release date

by Ciaran Thompson

Last week one half of rock duo The Kills, Alison Mosshart, revealed that she and Jamie Hince have finished recording a new album following 2008’s Midnight Boom. Today the band has released details of the upcoming release, as well as hinted at a possible North American tour.

The Kills’ next record is called Blood Pressures and will arrive on April 5. Recorded mostly at Key Club in Michigan and co-produced by Hince and Bill Skibbe, Blood Pressures will be the band’s fourth album. The duo left a detailed account of what transpired whilst making it on their official website.

“Alison went through 52 blank cassette tapes in her 4-track recorder. Jamie bought three guitars and a mellotron. The studio dogs ate 360 pounds of dog food. We drank all the red wine, watched VHS tapes on Vietnam, got blown down the street by hurricane force winds, watched lightning storms, rode bicycles/crashed bicycles. We started a game of rummy and never finished it. We tried to BBQ and realized we weren’t that way inclined.

“We finished the last few songs in London with our Michigan friends and Alison found a dog to borrow to have at the studio to make things more ‘normal.’ Does this sound confusing? Good. We’ll be in touch.”

View the tracklist for Blood Pressures below:

01 Future Starts Slow
02 Satellite
03 Heart Is A Beating Drum
04 Nail In My Coffin
05 Wild Charms
06 DNA
07 Baby Says
08 Last Goodbye
09 Damned If She Do
10 You Don’t Own The Road
11 Pots and Pans