These Are The Days We Will Never Forget

The Kills @ Terminal 5 2/11/2012

No Wow / Future Starts Slow / Heart Is A Beating Drum / Kissy Kissy / URA Fever / DNA / Satellite / Last Day of Magic / Crazy [Patsy Cline cover] / At the Back of the Shell / Black Balloon / Baby Says / You Don’t Own the Road / Tape Song / Cheap and Cheerful / Pots and Pans // The Last Goodbye / Nail in My Coffin / Sour Cherry / Fuck the People / Monkey 23

I reviewed this show for Rolling Stone and you can read about it there.

The Kills “Pots and Pans”

“Pots and Pans” is a sleeper song; it certainly took a while to reveal itself as one of the Kills’ finest compositions. The first half of the piece plays on a feeling of suspense – musically and emotionally, you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Alison Mosshart’s lyrics and vocals convey affection but some degree of ill-defined discomfort – with herself, with the object of her affection, something. Then that other shoe does drop, and the perspective of the song pulls back dramatically in scope. The coda is something else – romance and nostalgia on a grand scale. The failings of the present eventually fall away in hindsight, and these moments that are so fraught with tension because the days that we will never forget.

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