The Kills – Tape Song

Tick-tocking like a time bomb with metronome-like regularity, the latest single off ‘Midnight Boom’ unwinds with controlled precision. Slinking, elegant and dangerous, VV puts across an urgency in her voice, crooning in perfect sync with Hotel’s guitar, plucked like he means it. The final throes of the song are thrashed out in a cacophony of ravaged vocals underlaid by Hotel’s low but far from soothing voice. There’s what sounds like the clack of pots and pans in the background and the cold drum machine clashes on.

Like The Kills’ electric live show, ‘Tape Song’ exemplifies what the band does best: chaos controlled.