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Whistle Stopper - Midnight Boom
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List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Domino
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0801390016424
Label: Domino
Manufacturer: Domino
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Domino
Release Date: 2008-03-18
Studio: Domino
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Even better than No Wow
Comment: I cannot stop listening to this album. It is truly quite remarkable. It rocks, it resonates, it's fun, it's deep..it has it all. They have perfected their genre of simple rock with a playful edge. Love it.
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Summary: Midnight Boom
Comment: The Kills-Midnight Boom *****
"I want you to be crazy 'cos you're boring baby when your straight, I want you to be crazy 'cos you're stupid baby when your straight."
To say Midnight Boom is a great album is a severe understatement, and while it is early, it must be said that this is now, and chances are will be at the end of the year, the best of 2008. vocalist Alison "VV" Mosshart tag-teamed with Jamie "Hotel" Hince's original guitar work make The Kills one of modern musics greatest teams. Her soft angelic vocals, aside his recall classic Kim Deal and Francis early Pixies, and Sonic Youth when soulful. Bliss. The techno-blues/punk is one of the most refreshing things ever created, and this their third album is one of the most raw, and incoherent things that I have ever heard, and I wish more than anything thing else in the history of music that I had created this.
'U.R.A. Fever' is a cheerleader chant in the middle of of armageddon. 'Tape Song' is indescribable, and not memorable after it's off but when it's on you become transfixed. 'Last Day Of Magic' is stunning in the same way that The Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind' was at the end of Fight Club. 'Hook In Line' is the radio equivalent of the original SNL cast known then as the not ready for prime time players. 'M.E.X.I.C.O.' is short, punishing, and more intense than a night of great sex. 'Sour Cherry' is Jack White wishes he could do.
Incendiary isn't the right word, just the first one to come to mind.
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Summary: "We're two parties, two parties ending..."
Comment: Midnight Boom by The Kills could be the best album of 2008 even though the year is far from over. I got introduced to their music on the t.v. show Gossip Girl (who would have guessed?) and since then I have been hooked on this rock/punk duo's incredible sound. VV and Hotel share some great vocals together but most of the vocals belong to VV and that's fine with me, she reminds me of Shirley Manson of Garbage. All 12 tracks are catchy, unique, and brilliant. Sour Cherry, Last Day of Magic, Tape Song, U.R.A. Fever will have you dancing while tracks like Black Balloon, What New York Used to Be, and Goodnight Bad Morning show this duo's mellow and sensitive side. And there's something so special about their lyrics especially in the song Hook and Line: "Try your best to make it matter/tattoo it in the clouds above you/nail it down with jealous bones/till it goes like a feather off on it's own." Midnight Boom is a completely unexpected and over-looked gem! I highly recommend this under-rated masterpiece, enjoy!
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Summary: Warning
Comment: Once you pop this "kill"er album into your player, you won't be able to take it out. Rare but true -- this is filled with one distinctive song after another. Faves: The Last Day of Magic (brilliant delivery by American singer VV). U.R.A. Fever (works great as a ringtone, too). Black Balloon and Alphabet Pony have also definitely grew on me. The arrangements of every song are excellent, fresh and twisted, keeping you interested and hearing new things each time. The sound is electro-alterna-pop with some punk edge. Shades of PJ Harvey, Peaches, Velvet Underground, and even a little M.I.A. thrown in.
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Summary: Cheerful and not cheap!
Comment: If you're in a rock band and you're going to date a super model, your music had better be good or you're simply giving more fodder to the press. Just ask Pete Doherty.
Actually, Mr. Doherty does have a link, albeit a wobbly one with Brit/American duo The Kills. Guitarist Jamie Hince is dating Doherty's ex, Kate Moss, assuring them ample space in the British tabloids.
"Midnight boom" is their third album (I was introduced to their sound when I got their sophomore "No wow") and it features more of their edgy, electro rock sound. They get compared to The White Stripes simply because they comprise a boy/girl duo.
Opening is the droning throbbing ""U.R.A. fever (you're a fever, with the pair trading lines) followed by the hand-clap adorned groovy "Cheap and cheerful". It reminds me a wee bit of the groovy "Born to hand jive" from "Grease".
"Tape song" is a gently pulsing ballad that wouldn't sound of place on a Garbage CD as does the beautiful "Black balloon" (with Alison Mosshart turning in a crystal clear, yearning performance).
More upbeat are the jangly "Last day of magic", "Hook and line", the drum kit-demolishing "M.E.X.I.C.O.U." (nice girl group sound), the hand-clap (this seems to be a new trend, what with The Ting tings doing it too) adorned "Sour cherry" (with syncopated beats), the eerie but bouncy "Alphabet pony", and the distorted sounds of "What New york used to be".
Closing is the tender acoustic "Goodnight bad morning" with Hince providing subtle harmonies for Mosshart's vocals. Lovely piano tinkling also.
A strong CD that should keep them in the public eye long after the tabloids tire of the Moss liaison.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Jamie "Hotel" Hince might have become tabloid fodder thanks to his relationship with Kate Moss, but the third album by The Kills, his band with American vocalist Alison "VV" Mosshart, does relatively little to tidy itself up for mainstream consumption. Midnight Boom is a typically lean set of makeshift punk-blues characterised by Hince's raw, Nick Zinner-style guitar, and Alison's bad-attitude drawl: see the opening "U.R.A Fever", a beat-up call-and-response number reminiscent of Royal Trux than sees Hince and Mosshart swapping sour quips over loping bass and drum machine thud, while "Cheap and Cheerful" sees Mosshart declaring "I want you to be crazy/'Cos you're boring baby when you're straight". The presence of producer Armani XXXchange of Baltimore hip-hop outfit Spank Rock means there's a greater emphasis here on rhythm, often of a synthetic nature: "Alphabet Pony" bumps along on robust, lo-fi drum kicks and bursts of primitive electronics, while "Black Balloon" is a slow-burner that toys with layered percussion built from hand claps, scrapers, and tapped snare. The Kills still have problems with a big, memorable chorus--assuming, indeed, that was ever their intention--but Midnight Boom is all about grit and grooves, and it does that just fine. -Louis Pattison
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