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MojoMay 17, 2011Blood pressures doesn't quite take charge of their joint destiny as decisively as it needs to, the cohesive chain smoking cool do their earlier albums diluted by sudden shifts in tempo and mood. [May 2011, p.104]
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Q MagazineMay 17, 2011What was often missing was much in the way of engaging, nuanced songwriting. Four alums in, though, there are clear signs of progress. [May 2011, p.121]
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Apr 19, 2011Bluesier and less electronic than its predecessor, "Blood Pressures" is by far the Kills' most accomplished and diverse set yet.
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Apr 14, 2011Through the steady flowing of Allison's vocals and the constant strumming of the chords as well as the steady drum beats, the band proves that they are more than just robots and distortion; the Kills are indeed talented musicians.
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Apr 12, 2011It's been a cold three years since 2008's garage-synthy third album Midnight Bloom, but their new effort Blood Pressures is more than worth the wait.
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Apr 11, 2011Could 'Blood Pressure' restore The Kills fortunes to their early glory days? It would seem that Hince's luck might be running out.
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Entertainment WeeklyApr 8, 2011The blues-punk duo builds another near masterpiece. [8 Apr 2011, p.59]
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Alternative PressApr 8, 2011A highly charged and welcome return. [May 2011, p.93]
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Apr 7, 2011Her cold-blooded style meshes well with Hince's clanging guitars and the sleek world they have created inside of Blood Pressures.
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Apr 6, 2011It's hard to shake the feeling that the band's fourth album, Blood Pressures, is the one that will take The Kills to the next level.
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Apr 6, 2011Blood Pressures is the band's most coherent, consistent work to date, an album painted in gritty black-and-white blues and Mosshart's sexy, venomous vocals.
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Apr 6, 2011So, while Blood Pressures isn't quite as singular or great an album as Midnight Boom is, it does show that the latter record wasn't a fluke, wasn't the kind of classic that a minor band can almost stumble upon once in a career.
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Apr 6, 2011The new album feels at once a return to the Kills' beatbox-blues origins as well an attempt to broaden their palette with more sensitive, intimate turns.
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Apr 5, 2011They do try to mix up their formula, a move that pays off when subtly employed (the reggae textures in Satellite, for instance) but fails in the big, obvious spots.
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Apr 5, 2011It's an album that deserves the limelight, regardless of how it got there.
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Apr 5, 2011In spite of some solid material and smoky performances by Mosshart, Blood Pressures does little to change that.
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Apr 5, 2011The songs' little jabs infect the listener again and again: they suck you back in even as they draw a little blood, but never quite a gushing wound.
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Apr 5, 2011Blood Pressures is a darker, slower ride than Midnight Boom, but it shows the Kills can make subtle innovations as well as bold ones, and make them fit their signature sound to boot.
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Apr 5, 2011The chemistry between Mosshart and Hince must be more intense than ever, because their fourth album is also their finest.
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Apr 5, 2011The Kills are back - still covered in dirt, sleaze and reverb, but with a cleaner, softer centre.
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Apr 5, 2011Blood Pressures is a compelling forty minutes, and by the time we reach the closer, Pots and Pans, with a slider and twelve bar riffs to accompany its sultry, resonant admissions, you can barely imagine them any other way.
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Apr 4, 2011Blood Pressures mixes heavy, gainy hard-rocking guitars with a whole lot of making love to the mic.
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Apr 4, 2011Nonchalant no more, here they spike their sparse blues-print with humour and humanity, dub grooves and Southern gothic flavours.
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Apr 4, 2011Compared to 2008's Midnight Bloom, Blood Pressures sheds the more pop beats and synthetic sounds and embraces a more simplistic, almost vintage-y blues punk hybrid.
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Apr 4, 2011On Blood Pressures, the fourth studio album from singer Alison Mosshart and guitarist Jamie Hince, the duo adds a few twists to the formula.
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Apr 4, 2011Dirty, loud and intimidatingly sexy, Blood Pressures is the result of a year spent apart - Hince's adventures in sound provide the album's thick production, while Mosshart's stint as Dead Weather frontwoman instils further confidence and swagger in her provocative lyrics.
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Apr 4, 2011Blood Pressures works mostly because of how fully the duo believes in the junk they're spitting out.
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Apr 4, 2011It's business as usual on the whole.
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Apr 1, 2011Given Alison Mosshart's recent adventures with the Dead Weather (and Jamie Hince's escapades with fiancée Kate Moss), it's no shock that the new Kills record presents a more expansive sound from the London-based blues-punk duo.
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Apr 1, 2011At its best, album four matches the duo's darkly seductive early material.
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Apr 1, 2011Their fourth album [...] finds them turbo-charging their sound, the familiar primeval bluesy rock combined with bigger grooves and almost Burundi-type drumming.
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Apr 1, 2011Blood Pressures won't leave you feeling clean, but The Kills have found redemption.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 39
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Mixed: 5 out of 39
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Negative: 1 out of 39
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