Today, LA-based incendiary rock band Kills Birds are sharing their all-consuming, intense new single “Glisten,” the second offering from their upcoming, sophomore album Married, out via their new label home Royal Mountain Records and KRO Records on November 12th.
Today, the band have also confirmed several tour dates with Foo Fighters for 2021 and 2022 and have also been confirmed to perform as part of The Great Escape’s First Fifty, the first round of the freshest and most exciting talent across the globe.
Kills Birds Vocalist Nina Ljeti explains “Glisten”
“This song is about loving the wrong people. It was written after I experienced a profound betrayal, at the hands of a person who was unable to take accountability for their actions. The lyrics in the chorus (why don’t you love me) are directed at the person in question. In retrospect, they’re also questions I need to ask myself.”
Guitarist Jacob Loeb comments on “Glisten”
“Glisten was written to kind of feel like water. The chorusing, arpeggiating guitar melodies and the rolling, steadily intensifying rhythm section throughout the verse are meant to kind of create a sensation of floating in a river—like being gently lead by a force of nature that lures you somewhere turbulent and dangerous—the chorus with its angular, sharp and aggressive instrumentation.”
Watch the official visualizer for “Glisten” below:
“Rabbit,” the ferocious first single and opening track on Married is a storming and immediate declaration of intent from the LA-based band, a brutal and intense account of an abusive relationship struggling with power dynamics, oscillating between quiet and loud dynamics – both beautiful and aggressive, devastating and cathartic.
Watch the video for Kills Birds‘ track “Rabbit” below:
Led by LA-based and Canada-raised Nina Ljeti (who The LA Times deemed “L.A.’s most electrifying new rock singer”) and rounded out guitarist Jacob Loeb and bassist Fielder Thomas, it’s the first track from Kills Birds since their debut self-titled won fans at outlets like NPR, NYLON, The FADER, The New York Times, Paste Magazine, Chicago Tribune, as well as musicians like Kim Gordon, Hayley Williams of Paramore and Dave Grohl, the latter of which recently invited the band to join Foo Fighters in Mexico City two days before the album’s release. The band will also be opening for Sleigh Bells on a nationwide US tour in October. Full dates are below.
Kills Birds‘ Married is going to be released on November 12th via Royal Mountain Records and KRO Records. You can pre-order it here.
I have to admit that I’m completely blown away by Kills Birds and I’m curious to find out how the whole album is going to sound.
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