Released:April 5, 2011
Is it a coincidence that only a mere few months after The White Stripes announce their eradication that The Kills come out with a ground breaking garage blues album? Who knows. While I could compare this album and The Kills to the White Stripes in so many ways, I won't. Allison Mosshart must have taken some notes from Dead Weather bandmate Jack White, because she sounds phenomenal on Blood Pressures. Truly. This album is packed with realism while in constant battle with the extraordinary. The lyricism and overall music ability is exceedingly vast this time around. I am not disappointed to hear them leave their usually dominant goth-rock sound behind.
I must say I have a fierce girl crush on Allison Mosshart. I saw her, the amazing Jack White and the rest of great musicians of the Dead Weather in Ottawa a few years ago, and I was just blown away. Her stage presence is absolutely incendiary.
Before Blood Pressures I cannot say that I was a big Kills fan. I didn't mind them, but was not a fan enough to even own any of their music. This album has turned me right around. Jamie Hince and Allision Mosshart are so fantastic together. There is not one track that I do not like on this album. I'd have to say right now, my favorite is Wild Charms. Though it is only one minute and fifteen seconds long, hardly enough time to constitute itself as a song, it is very calming and whimsical. I am in love.
This album has the ability to appeal to a whole slew of music lovers; blues fans, garage rock fans, grunge, Beatles fans, psychedelic folk fans, Jack White (and his abundance of cohorts) fans, Jeff Beck fans, and so on, and so on.
I am extremely impressed and thrilled with the result of Blood Pressures.
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