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Stylish, sexy, and simple, the nouveau-garage clatter of the Kills has magnificently sat on a line between base and brilliant. They've traded in a bluesy, overdriven sleaze that's served many a duo well in recent years, blurring the edges between their tandem vocals, staccato guitars, and vintage drum machines. On albums such as Keep on Your Mean Side (2003) and No Wow (2005), they managed to take a classic rock template and turn it into something more modern and audibly dangerous. Midnight Boom pushes those edges even further, and has its own kind of swagger that stands apart from anything they've done so far. Despite hammering on its titular phrase like it's a lip gloss for sale, opener 'U.R.A.
Fever' manages to sound like an XTRMNTR outtake that substitutes seduction for violence, with a slinky backbeat made from equal parts purring bass and jarring phone noise.Many Kills reviews suggest romance in between the two principals- Alison 'VV' Mosshart and Jamie 'Hotel' Hince; the masterfully sustained tension of their previous music practically invited the guesswork. But in comparison, Midnight Boom is limp. The album's beat-heavy inclinations are supposedly inspired by playground chants (specifically a film documentary called Pizza Pizza Daddio), which is easy to pick out from handclaps and martial drumbeats that run through almost every track here. But that same inspiration extends to the sing-song vocal melodies, and much of the lyrics. Now, lyrically, the Kills never had to do any heavy lifting; so long as the words sounded vaguely sexy and/or badass, they fit perfectly. However, the tawdry cheerleader chanting of 'Cheap and Cheerful' quickly move past intriguing to inane, and the wordless chorus of 'Getting Down' recalls all the inspiration and verve of the Greg Kihn Band.
They just don't write 'em like that anymore, and with good reason.The saving grace of Midnight Boom is the Kills' desire to break these songs open and see how they work, what makes them tick. The beat-first approach is just window dressing on tracks like 'Cheap and Cheerful' (despite some production help from Armani XXXchange of Spank Rock; maybe the remix will fare better), but others like 'Tape Song' jump from coy and insinuating to the album's most blistering chorus. Throughout, Mosshart's vocals are fuller and reflect more character than before. On one of the best rock songs I've heard so far this year, 'Last Day of Magic' trades the stiff pinball plink of its verses with a tease towards catharsis on a tantalizing two-chord chorus that gets a little longer with each return, until it's finally revealed unmolested as the song's melodic anchor in maybe the last half-minute. By the time you get the full impression of the song, it's over.
It's a great trick of rearranging that pulls back the curtain dramatically, but nearly every other song on Midnight Boom seems to be waiting for this kind of moment, losing it to a pile on the cutting-room floor.
Contents.Promotion 'U.R.A. Fever' was released as the lead single from the album on December 3, 2007. The second single, 'Cheap and Cheerful', was released on February 25, 2008. 'Last Day of Magic' was released as the third single on June 15, 2008Two final singles from the album were ', released on November 16, 2008, and ', released on March 22, 2009. Both songs have charted in France.' Sour Cherry' was featured on an episode of the TV series, and became popular. 'Sour Cherry' was also featured in.
'What New York Used to Be' was used in the film.Commercial performance Midnight Boom was the band's first album that charted on the in the U.S., peaking at number 133. It has also charted at number 16 on the, number 9 on, and topped the chart. In Europe, it reached number 47 on the, and has also charted in Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. It was awarded a silver certification from the which indicated sales of at least 30,000 copies throughout Europe. Critical reception Professional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRating75/100Review scoresSourceRatingBB+A−6.8/10The album received positive reviews from music critics.
At, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 31 reviews. Track listing All tracks are written. Cheap and Cheerful'2:263.' Getting Down'2:555.'
Last Day of Magic'3:216.' Hook and Line'2:037.' Sour Cherry'3:0710.' Alphabet Pony'1:4511.'
What New York Used to Be'3:1512.' Goodnight Bad Morning'3:5213.' Night Train' (UK Download Bonus Track)3:04Personnel.
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