Kill it Kid

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http://www.festicheyres.ch

Tickets:
Free entrance


The third long-player from the bluesy English four-piece, You Owe Nothing toes the line between garage-born indie rock and radio-ready mainstream modern rock, falling somewhere between the Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Kongos, and Band of Skulls, and leaving the roots rock and folk influences that dominated their first two offerings in the rear-view mirror. It's immediately clear from the fuzzed-out volley of compressed, staccato guitar licks and meaty kick drum blasts that help launch the album opener that the band's first major-label outing is meant to attract fans of the aforementioned Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney-led punk-blues outfit. Fans looking for something a tad more bucolic from the Bath-based quartet will inevitably be disappointed, as outside of the slow-burn torch ballads "Tried Used Loved Abused, "Caroline," and "Law of Love," all of which are as big sonically as they are nosebleed seat-ready emotionally, due in large part to frontman Chris Turpin's cannon of a voice (think Jeff Buckley meets Whitesnake's David Coverdale), there's nothing here to wind down to. That said, Turpin and keyboard player Stephanie Ward's vocal acrobatics and the band's newfound muscularity work more times than not, with highlights arriving via (carefully calculated) garage punk gems like "Black It Out," "High Class," and "Blood Stop and Run," but the intense modern rock sheen with which they're delivered does little to help Kill It Kid pull away from the pack. In fact, it kind of shoves them toward the back.




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