Kills, The - Ash & Ice [2LP]

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Double vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. 2016 release. Ash & Ice is the follow up to 2011's critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making in part du e to Jamie Hince's five hand surgeries, which resulted in him having to re-learn how to play guitar with a permanently damaged finger. It was during Hince's recuperation from surgery that he first started sketching out what would become the songs for the album. To shake up the writing process, Hince booked a solo trip on the infamous Trans-Siberian Express for inspiration while Alison Mosshart, now residing in Nashville, TN, wrote some of the most affecting, poetically candid lyrics that she ever has, painting word pictures that mine the dangerous terrain between romantic obsession, prophecy and tough love. Where previous albums had an air of detachment and emotional austerity, underpinned by an uneasy self-awareness and unexpressed anger, the songs on Ash & Ice are more understated, less tempestuous and more affecting because of that, exposing the kind of push-pull you feel when you find yourself in a complicated but all-consuming relationship. Ash & Ice is The Kills at their emotionally charged, arresting best. Prepare to be slayed. 1 Doing It to Death2 Heart of a Dog3 Hard Habit to Break4 Bitter Fruit5 Days of Why and How6 Let It Drop7 Hum for Your Buzz8 Siberian Nights9 That Love10 Impossible Tracks11 Black Tar12 Echo Home13 Whirling Eye Show more