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The sixth studio album, Matango!, by Western Australian band The Kill Devil Hills is out on Bang! Records. The new album has ten songs, that -- according to the band's own words -- reference "global unrest and displacement, near future scenarios, climate catastrophe, pandemic vortices, the Simpsons, the grace of women, refugees and boat people, Cold War paranoia, the creative process itself, and of course Australia and its peculiar place in things." Matango! had a few different birthplaces over the 2018-19 period: an old house in the hills of Perth, back porches in Fremantle, a Prague apartment, a French country villa in the swelter of summer, and a lonely pandemic piano. A strange and sinewy beast of an album, it's something of a departure from earlier KDH work: minimal, leering with glitching drums samples, synth swells, empty spaces, and a soup of fat bass tones to float it all in. Recording started about two weeks before lockdowns did in Australia, and so everything went into that unique mode of hibernation for a while, but the album beds were largely done, and work eventually recommenced, discovering what was there, reshaping and re-recording some tracks, and throwing in an experimental opening salvo which is largely free of regular instruments, more a montage of samples and textures, written on a piano and then deconstructed into a spectral hiss and wail. The album title obliquely refers to the 1963 Japanese psychological horror film of the same name (directed by Godzilla/kaiju maestro Ishiro Honda).
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Killer reissue of the second album by The Kill Devil Hills, The Drought, originally recorded in November 2005, where the band goes toward dirtier and rawer sounds. The band continues in the direction of their first work, Heathen Songs, but adds dirtier nuances and rock. If in the first album you could mention Nick Cave and Hugo Race as influences, in this second one you can easily add The Beasts Of Bourbon to the list of influences, when listening to some of the rawest songs of it. This gang of animals from Perth, Australia, take their swampy folk-blues and take it to a new world of more extreme and wild sounds where melodies and violins create a wall of sound that involuntarily forces you to listen. After their successful tours of Australia and America, The Kill Devil Hills released this album in which they showed you that they were not "the next big thing", they were really a great band with overwhelming live shows. A key band and a pillar of the new emerging and ardent scene that has once again made Australia a hotbed of creativity. Bang! Records returns to edit this band, and as usual, with the quality Bang! Edition of 500.
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The Kill Devil Hills' fifth album, Pink Fit! In this occasion the band deliver six long tracks, fulfilled of complex melodies and intensity. The Kill Devil Hills are one of Australia's best kept secrets. Coming from the isolated city of Perth, these musicians continue their growth and evolution delivering the very finest and most intense music which takes you, with their unique stamp and signature, to the world of The Drones, The Beasts Of Bourbon, Kim Salmon, The Gun Club, Johnny Cash... After the highly demanded reissue of their 2004 debut (BANG 017LP), here comes another magnificent musical work by these excellent and finest Australian musicians. 150 gram vinyl; Edition of 500.
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The Kill Devil Hills, one of Australia's best kept secrets, present their fourth album, In On Under Near Water. Coming from the isolated city of Perth, these musicians continue their growth and evolution, delivering the very finest and most intense music which takes the listener, with their unique stamp and signature, to the world of The Drones, The Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon, The Gun Club, and Johnny Cash. After the highly demanded reissue of their 2004 debut album Heathen Songs (BANG 017LP, 2016), here comes another magnificent musical work by these excellent and finest Australian musicians. 150 gram vinyl; Edition of 500.
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150-gram LP in gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 500. The Kill Devil Hills are an Australian band from Perth, which, along with The Drones, formed from the ashes of Gutterville Splendour Six. This band has earned a well-deserved reputation with three absolutely magnificent albums and purely intense concerts. Heathen Songs is their long-unavailable 2004 debut album. One of Bang! Records' all-time favorites from its back catalog, this record is a total must for fans of The Beasts of Bourbon, Johnny Cash, The Drones, and Neil Young.
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