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The Kills are on intimate terms with betrayal and decay, and they make dark, kick-ass garage rock out of it. On Keep on Your Mean Side, the coed duo's full-length debut, vocalist VV sings lines like "I get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get hitched" with a PJ Harvey-like fearlessness, creating high-wire tension over the astringent guitar riffs of her partner, Hotel. The wonderfully hateful "Fuck the People" even cops the strut of Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher." Mean Side ends with the acoustic "Gypsy Death and You," a rewrite of Velvet Underground's tender "Afterhours" that lets in a little light on this bruising disc of post-modern blues.
PETER RELIC
(From RS 922, May 15, 2003)
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