Insound Staff Pick - 2008! The Kills are VV (vocals, guitar) and Hotel (drums, vocals, guitar), and they're finally ready to end the longing. No Wow is their heavily anticipated follow-up to 2002's Keep on Your Mean Side, and it is soon to be the seminal sweating, sultry stomp. You see, as experts of reduction seduction, The Kills have that rare ability to speak volumes without saying much -- No Wow clicks and seethes with glorious understatements. Frill-free and fuzzed, No Wow is teeming with some of the ...   [ read more ]

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It's hard to believe that the Kills could sound even darker, tighter, and more stripped-down than they did on Keep on Your Mean Side, but somehow they managed it: No Wow is one of the most highly concentrated rock albums in a long, long time. In fact, its tight focus and barely relenting intensity make Keep on Your Mean Side's more traditional ebb and flow feel downright slack. The band's throbbing guitars, to-the-point rhythms, and sexy, dangerous lyrics have been simmered and tempered down...   [ read more ]

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