Fortunately, that plan died a well-deserved death because the synth wasn’t repaired by the time they hit the studio. Early on, Hotel had intended to make the new record radically different by writing and playing all of his parts on a Moog keyboard.
No Wow is the band’s heavily anticipated follow-up to 2002’s Keep on Your Mean Side, and, despite the stripped-down lineup, there’s a little more fat on the bone this time out. But while the White Stripes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs may deem bass players unnecessary, the duo of Jamie Hince (“Hotel”) and Alison Mosshart (“VV”) take their minimalism one step further and dispense with the need for one of those pesky drummers too, concocting a fuzzed and frill-free sound. The former, not to be confused with the more mainstream pop band the Killers, are often mentioned in the same breath as the White Stripes, because both are boy/girl bands and share a less-is-more aesthetic with strong blues elements in their sound. The Kills, an Anglo-American pair, and the Sights, young dudes from garage hotbed Detroit, do what they can to clatter above the masses on their respective new records, with varying success. To exist as a garage rock band today-or more specifically to be more than just a garage rock band-it seems you have to stand out from the crowd, either by stunning the room with your mere presence (á la Karen O) or by ripping off obscure ’60s records that everyone’s forgotten about (á la The Strokes). When her gang pressures Arden to help break the grip of the elite and end Dade's interference with their drug trade, she is forced to make a deadly choice between love and family loyalty.The Kills and the Sights throw a few curves at lo-fi rocks tried and true formula 1 Dade, desperate to escape his upcoming arranged marriage, has a secret of his own, and he's willing to risk everything for it.Īn unlikely romance develops between the two teens-but their love faces opposition from above and below. There she meets Dade, one of the few lucky enough to be born into the sun-kissed families who reside in the Towers soaring above the rest of the city.
A blackout band traps Arden in her district, but as sister to the leader of the most powerful gang in Undercity, she has access to Above. Arden-beautiful, street-smart, and cynical-is one of the citizens of the lowest Level, known as Undercity, of an off-world colony. In a stratified society where contact with the sun is a luxury reserved for the elite, those kept prisoner in the darkness will do anything to find the light.
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