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For Immediate Release
September 23, 2019
LOS ANGELES-BASED BAND
KILLS BIRDS
OUT NOW
VIA KRO RECORDS
& SHARE NEW OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR
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"Nine songs, 26 minutes: The debut album from Kills Birds is a furious, fuzzy bombshell...The album's rumbling, squealing opening track is the perfect soundtrack to 100 beers spilling on the floor of a dark rock club."
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WATCH & SHARE: KILLS BIRDS - "
VOLCANO"
LA-based band, Kills Birds, release their self-titled, debut album via KRO Records, with a brand new video for "
Volcano."
Produced by Justin Raisen (Marisa Nadler, Angel Olsen, Yves Tumor),
KILLS BIRDS
includes the previously released singles, "Worthy Girl," "
Jesus Did
" and "
Ow
,
" along with six more incendiary tracks.
Kill Gordon has called the music
"hot as f*ck," and Reggie Watts has been urging his fans to listen, while Buzzbands LA has pointed people towards the next live show, saying they are sure to put on "a hell of a show." The band is scheduled for a Desert Daze set on Sunday, October 13 set.
Buzzbands LA says:
"The album is 26 minutes of exposed nerves. Ljeti's speak-singing builds to primal caterwauls, then recedes again. The music's paroxysms open a vein to her inner frustrations, even if they are only opaquely described in the lyrics. It's visceral and physical music - as led by somebody who didn't know punk rock until one fateful night after she watched "American Idol" (stay tuned for that story)."
The video for "
Volcano" that came out today, along with the album, and it shows a lot of that "inner frustration" that
Buzzbands LA describes that the album at-large encapsulates. Lead vocalist Nina Lieti's own words, says:
"Volcano" is meant to encapsulate that feeling of being a teenage girl on the verge of adulthood. The constantly fluctuating feelings of excitement, power, sexuality, insecurity, and inadequacy as you are trying to get a sense of who you are. There's no climax to the video because I wanted to stay true to the nervous energy and stasis of being a teenager. It's a so-called life. In your mind, you're ready to grow up, but you're not sure how to yet. You're not as ready as you think you are.
I still carry that impatient energy with me into adulthood. That's what Volcano is about. There are so many things I want/want to be, but I'm not grown enough yet. I want to be a volcano but I'm still dormant. Maybe soon that will change."
Lieti directed video for first single, "
Worthy Girl," premiered on
LADYGUNN, who call the band "The Rock Band We Need Right Now."
NYLON,
who premiered the "Worthy Girl" track
, declared the song to be "
mandatory listening
" in an exclusive track premiere. "
Starting off sounding like PJ Harvey, 'Worthy Girl' then erupts into a staccato stop/start post punk dispatch, spat from the heart
," wrote
Doubtful Sounds
. "
Great energy and no-fucking-around dynamics that make swift work of two and a half minutes. Great stuff.
" "
The Los Angeles band's gritty new guitar-rock rumbler aches and thrashes in all the right spaces and places
," raved
Vanyaland
. "'Worthy Girl' s
uggests big things are ahead for the quartet.
"
"Ow" followed earlier this summer, joined by a raw performance video directed by actor/filmmaker Cris Gris and streaming via YouTube HERE. "'Ow" has the kind of reckless thrash and willfully messy lyrics that seem absent from a lot of today's guitar music," affirmed Paste in its exclusive premiere. "It bleeds with stark confidence, primitive guitars and grating lead vocals, and it embodies the slightly threatening but ultimately exhilarating swagger that you get from spitting on the concrete or gleefully launching into a mosh pit." The track "marries atmospheric verses (shades of Life Without Buildings) with a raging rock chorus," wrote Brooklyn Vegan, while The 405 enthused, "'Ow' highlights (Kills Birds') knack for head-banging instrumentation and well-focused fury...Lead singer Nina Ljeti, meanwhile, performs vocal theatrics atop this cacophony, drawing the listener in with her audible sneer." Alt Citizen praised the track as "a slimy-gorgeous banger...heavy and delicate, angry and somehow serene," adding, ""Ow" has got breezy summer drive vibes stirred in with the slime you feel at grungy basement shows at venues where the bathroom is so questionable you tell yourself you can hold it in spite of all the gross cheap beer you drank."
"Jesus Did" was the third single to be released and Grimy Goods says it "is a roaring message transcribed in highly efficient sound waves. It's gritty, ballsy and not afraid to mince words and question expectations. Accompanied by a rather hard to place music video, the song is further etched into your brain thanks in part to a music video filled with goats, coltish movement and playful camera angles."
Speaking on the track itself, Lieti explains:
"Jesus Did is a song about my frustrations with the LA scene. When I moved here I felt very alone. I was constantly surrounded by people who were difficult to connect with," Ljeti said. "Individuals who had the luxury of never having to fight for anything, who were born with all the privilege in the world. They all walk around the clubs and bars like gods with nothing to preach. But though I struggle to connect with them, I also wish I could be exactly like them. I think things would be easier."
Kills Birds began as a secret project between vocalist Nina Ljeti - an award-winning Bosnian-Canadian filmmaker, now living in L.A. - and guitarist Jacob Loeb but in 2017, evolved into a full-fledged band with the addition of Fielder Thomas (bass) and Bosh Rothman (drums). They immediately drew attention for their electrifying live performances, their jagged guitar-driven melodies and slow-burning dynamics made even more explosive by Ljeti's urgent lyricism and raw stage presence. Among the band's earliest fans was producer - and KRO Records founder - Justin Raisen, who not only signed Kills Birds to his growing label roster, but opted to produce their remarkable debut album as well. Recorded nearly live over an intense eight-hour session,
KILLS BIRDS expertly captures the band's on-stage energy, its feral, unfettered power fueled throughout by the extraordinary intensity of Ljeti's striking songcraft.
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The album is very personal," Ljeti says. "
As a whole, it has no concept, but each song is reflective of what I struggled with, and continue to struggle with. Feelings of insecurity, anxiety, inadequacy, and ultimately love. Love is the main driving force behind everything I create."
"
The instrumentation helps clarify those feelings," she continues. "
When Jacob and I write, Jacob is able to understand what I'm feeling, and he uses the instrumentation to elevate the piece to a whole new level. He honors the words and challenges me to find the best method of expression. His contribution is brave- he works without ego to benefit the emotion of the song. Same goes with Fielder and Bosh. Completing the puzzle. We are all emotional beings. And we struggle with what everyone struggles with. Our ultimate goal is to stay true to that, no matter what. We play together because we crave honesty, and we want to do justice to love in all its forms."
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TOUR DATES:
Oct 13 - Lake Perris, CA - Desert Daze - More info
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RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
TRACKLISTING
1. Worthy Girl
2. Jesus Did
3. Ow
4. Volcano
5. New Friend
6. Only Yellow
7. Tear Up
8. High
9. Ok Hurricane
CONNECT WITH KILLS BIRDS:
PRESS CONTACT:
Big Hassle Media
Jim Merlis
Leigh Greaney
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