With their basic sound intact - searing guitars, driving rhythms and sexually-charged lyrical savvy - the 11 tracks on Blood Pressures find The Kills embracing a fuller sound than on their sparse, minimalist previous album, 2008's Midnight Boom.
Bikini Kill's first 'proper' record improves greatly on the production quality of the band's earlier efforts. The production convincingly adds a brittle immediacy to the record that only serves to raise the album's emotional stakes.
What are we to make of the world? In many ways, the title New Fragility perfectly sums up our collective state of unease and anxiety, but it's particularly apt for singer songwriter Alec Ounsworth.
- "Fever To Tell" Fever to Tell is the debut studio album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003 by Interscope Records. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and features the singles, Date with the Night, Pin, Maps, and y Control.