KILL FOR EDEN'S debut album comes roaring out of my speakers like the missing link between Sass Jordan, Lita Ford and Beki Bondage and with as tight and muscular a sound as you could want from a straight ahead rock band.
The opening song, Kerosene, isn't a cover of the Big Black classic of that name, but instead it's a song about the flames of passion that burn like a tank of Kerosene set on fire. But will the passion die as quickly as the fire does? Well throughout this album they really keep the pace up and throw great listenable rock tunes at us one after another.
Much of them deal with love going awry or just finding you're stuck with someone so Beige you just have to get this him out of your life. Funnily, Beige is for me one of the real stand outs on this album as Lyla D'Souza leaves us in doubt she expects more from her man than to be beige. Oh, and at no point on this album do they sound remotely beige themselves.
When she accuses a lover of Living On Mars over a good crunchy backing you know he might not have a clue what he's done, but he will regret pissing her off that's for sure.
Over & Over, meanwhile, has a great intro followed by a very cool repeating riff as we go over & over the mistakes that have been made and well, let's face it, she is a woman who needs satisfying and who are we to deny her?
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Alone With My Demons is as close to Lita Ford as she gets and it has the sort of frank lyrics you'd expect with a title like that. She gets to the core of sitting by yourself wondering where it all went wrong again.
Throughout the album, the songs have a sound and feel that makes me think they are also going to really work live and the slightly heavier version of Kerosene that closes the proceedings really seems to emphasize that point. It also really sounds more like Sass Jordan every time I hear it which is no bad thing even if it isn't as angry as her Pissing Down. Kill For Eden are certainly mining similar territory, though which on this evidence is no bad thing.
They will be out playing a few select shows from the end of the month and I imagine will be worth catching if you can.
Kill For Eden online
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