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Product Description The Kills are VV (vocals, guitar) and Hotel (drums, vocals, guitar), and they're finally ready to end the wait. 'No Wow' is their heavily anticipated follow-up to 2002's Keep On Your Mean Side, and the album's seminal sweating, sultry stomp is sure to cause a stir. RCA. 2005. Amazon.com On their sophomore release, the Kills come on like a post-punk version of Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter--with "hate" tattooed on one hand, "love" on the other. Lyrics reference the two to the extent that there's even a song called "I Hate the Way You Love" (plus a slow version, "I Hate the Way You Love, Pt. 2"). Similarly, VV (Alison Mosshart) sings like a cross between and Christina Martinez (). And yet, despite lines like, "Get the guns out" ("Love is a Deserter") and "Lost a lot of blood" ("At the Back of the Shell"), No Wow is too catchy to be a bummer (must be "love" asserting its presence). VV and Hotel (Jamie Hince) make their songs move and groove with a minimum of fuss, mostly just some grubby guitar, unobtrusive drum machine, and Suicide-like electronic pulses. Mitchum would surely approve. --Kathleen C. Fennessy