The Kills
God Games
Domino
Released 10/27/23
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Seven years since The Kills’ most recent studio album Ash & Ice (2016) arrived, the dynamic duo of Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince have unveiled their follow-up effort. Produced by Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, London Grammar, U2), the duo’s sixth long player God Games comprises twelve tracks including the recently released singles “New York,” “LA Hex,” “103” and “Wasterpiece.”
“(God Games) was written at a weird time as everybody went through that same thing from 2020,” Hince recently explained to Minneapolis public radio outlet The Current. “And it was just a lot of thoughts going outside of the planet for me and just thinking, I don't know, I just kind of, I was writing these songs. And I felt this idea that this I mean, I'm an atheist. And but when I'm when I was writing songs, I kind of realized I'm thinking about a higher power. I don't believe in God, but in my creative life, I kind of involve him. And so I wanted to write these kinds of godless spiritual kind of things, kind of like atheist gospels was the idea of some of the songs I was writing. And that's kind of the through line, I suppose. God Games, the actual God game is like, one of those games like Sims or something like that. But I liked the idea of it being you know, something else.”
Listen to the album below and be sure to catch The Kills on tour early next year.
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