Music Video Reviews
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The KillsTitle:
Cheap And Cheerful
The Kills ‘Cheap and Cheerful’, billed as “two and a half minutes of rock and roll abandon” is out on March 3rd but to tide you over they have released the accompanying video.
The production features beats and studio smarts from Spank Rock’s Alex Epton aka Armani XXXchange, as combined with Alison’s confidently teasing vocals.
Taking inspiration from Pizza Pizza Daddio, a Sixties documentary about kids in inner-city schools in the USA, The Kills’ Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart started building rhythms influenced by the children’s dark playground songs, on an old school hand-punched MPC-60 hip hop drum sequencer. The end result is a track that takes you right to the heat of the moment - both timeless and utterly contemporary.
Cheap & Cheerful is taken from the band’s forthcoming album, Midnight Boom, due a week later on March 10th.