The kills

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The kills
The Kills at Lille Vega, Copenhagen.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Indie rock
founding 2000
Website www.thekills.tv
Current occupation
VV alias Alison Mosshart
Hotel aka Jamie Hince
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Keep on Your Mean Side
  UK 47 03/22/2003 (2 weeks)
No wow
  UK 56 03/05/2005 (1 week)
Midnight boom
  AT 56 03/23/2008 (6 weeks)
  CH 66 03/21/2008 (4 weeks)
  UK 47 03/22/2008 (2 weeks)
  US 133 04/05/2008 (1 week)
Blood pressures
  DE 33 04/15/2011 (2 weeks)
  AT 31 04/15/2011 (2 weeks)
  CH 16 04/17/2011 (5 weeks)
  UK 40 04/16/2011 (1 week)
  US 37 04/23/2011 (4 weeks)
Ash & Ice
  DE 25th 06/10/2016 (2 weeks)
  AT 15th 06/17/2016 (3 weeks)
  CH 14th 06/12/2016 (5 weeks)
  UK 18th 06/16/2016 (1 week)
  US 45 06/25/2016 (1 week)
Singles
Fried My Little Brains
  UK 55 04/26/2003 (2 weeks)
Pull a U
  UK 80 11/01/2003 (1 week)
The good ones
  UK 23 02/19/2005 (2 weeks)
Love is a deserter
  UK 44 06/11/2005 (2 weeks)
No wow
  UK 53 11/12/2005 (1 week)

The Kills is a British - American rock band , consisting of the American singer (at times also guitarist or bassist) Alison Mosshart alias VV and the London guitarist and singer Jamie Hince alias Hotel .

history

The duo began working together in 2000, and in 2002 they released their debut EP Black Rooster . The difficult to classify, sparse mixture of blues , punk and independent , which thrives on the mixture of drum machine rhythm, guitar riffs and minimalist production, met with worldwide approval from critics. In 2003 they released their debut album Keep On Your Mean Side on the British label Rough Trade Records , followed in 2005 by the album No Wow , about which songwriter Jamie Hince says: “With Keep On Your Mean Side we tried to cut everything off fat, just skin and bones. We did without them on the new album. "

Her piece No Wow was used among others for the soundtrack of the film Knallhart by Detlev Buck .

In December 2009, The Kills announced that they had started work on a new album. The fourth album Blood Pressures was released on April 5, 2011.

The Kills live 20050117 02.jpg
The Kills live 20050117 01.jpg


The Kills, live in Stockholm

Discography

Studio albums

  • Keep on Your Mean Side (2003)
  • No Wow (2005)
  • Midnight Boom (2008)
  • Blood Pressures (2011)
  • Ash & Ice (2016)

EPs and singles

  • Black Rooster EP (Domino, 2002)
  • Fried My Little Brains (Domino, 2003)
  • Fuck the People ("limited 7") (Domino, 2003)
  • Pull a U (Domino, 2003)
  • The Good Ones (Domino, 2005)
  • Love Is a Deserter (Domino, 2005)
  • No Wow (Domino, 2006)
  • URA Fever (Domino, 2008)
  • Cheap and Cheerful (Domino, 2008)
  • Last Day of Magic (Domino, 2008)
  • Black Balloon (Domino, 2009)
  • Satellite (Domino, 2011)
  • Future Starts Slow (Domino, 2011)

Other

  • "Restaurant Blouse" (on If the Twenty-First Century Did Not Exist It Would Be Necessary to Invent It compilation, 5 Rue Christine 2002)
  • "I Call It Art" (on Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited -tribute album-, Barclay 2005)
  • "Meds" ( Placebo featuring Alisson Mosshart, on Meds, 2006)
  • "Rodeo Town" (Jesse Malin on "On Your Sleeve", 2008)
  • "I'm Set Free" (written by Lou Reed, sung by The Kills, from the movie Free Jimmy , 2006)
  • "Monkey 23" closing song in the film "The wild beat of my heart"
  • "Sour Cherry" song in the movie "House Bunny"
  • "URA Fever" song in the film "Welcome to the Rileys" as well as in "The Losers"
  • "Future Starts Slow" song at the end of the series S02E16 "Relevance" of the TV series "Person of Interest"
  • "No Wow" song at the beginning of the series S05E01 "BSOD" of the TV series "Person of Interest"

Web links

Commons : The Kills  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ [1] , last viewed on July 3, 2011