I'm excited beyond comprehension, which is both a rare feeling and an annoying one. As the link tells you, Blood Pressures is going to be released on 4 April in the UK. That's 77 days, or 1851 hours, or 111076 minutes depending on which way you want to look at it. That's going to feel like an aeon for me.
The roller-coaster of emotions that comes with having to wait for something is very similar to really needing to go to the toilet. There's the fear of survival, or social embarrassment, when you don't think you'll be able to wait any longer and might be about to do something catastrophically stupid in front of groups of people because of it. More often than not it dies down for a short period of time, you feel like you can manage the problem which is a great relief, 'it's not that long before I can buy it/go to the toilet' you say to yourself. Well it is. Within minutes it all comes flooding back and you've got the fear again. Then, after all the waiting, you can finally get excited about the impending release (whichever way you want to look at it).
Anyway, toilet talk over and done with, I might as well give you a bit of background on The Kills. They're a duo, consisting of Alison Mosshart, a woman who is very much after my heart, with her uber-coolness and her punky fashion sense and her long black hair (photo attached if you don't believe me); and Jamie Hince, who is better-known for being Kate Moss's boyfriend, so I don't need to tell you how cool he is. They both play guitar and sing, the drums for their songs are programmed by Hince for studio recordings and live performances, a pain staking process which is presumably why we have to wait so long for a new album.
If you're intrigued, I would suggest listening to Tape Song, Last Day of Magic, No Wow and Superpowerless. In fact, even if you're not intrigued I suggest you do. If you like what you hear, then you can have a listen to my Spotify playlist of some of their best songs. But while you sit there and enjoy it, spare a thought for me, agonising over the 111076 minutes that have got to elapse before I can feel right again.
The roller-coaster of emotions that comes with having to wait for something is very similar to really needing to go to the toilet. There's the fear of survival, or social embarrassment, when you don't think you'll be able to wait any longer and might be about to do something catastrophically stupid in front of groups of people because of it. More often than not it dies down for a short period of time, you feel like you can manage the problem which is a great relief, 'it's not that long before I can buy it/go to the toilet' you say to yourself. Well it is. Within minutes it all comes flooding back and you've got the fear again. Then, after all the waiting, you can finally get excited about the impending release (whichever way you want to look at it).
Anyway, toilet talk over and done with, I might as well give you a bit of background on The Kills. They're a duo, consisting of Alison Mosshart, a woman who is very much after my heart, with her uber-coolness and her punky fashion sense and her long black hair (photo attached if you don't believe me); and Jamie Hince, who is better-known for being Kate Moss's boyfriend, so I don't need to tell you how cool he is. They both play guitar and sing, the drums for their songs are programmed by Hince for studio recordings and live performances, a pain staking process which is presumably why we have to wait so long for a new album.If you're intrigued, I would suggest listening to Tape Song, Last Day of Magic, No Wow and Superpowerless. In fact, even if you're not intrigued I suggest you do. If you like what you hear, then you can have a listen to my Spotify playlist of some of their best songs. But while you sit there and enjoy it, spare a thought for me, agonising over the 111076 minutes that have got to elapse before I can feel right again.
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