Kill to Kill

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New Guilt Ridden Pop signees Kill to Kill are a study in dissonance. Lead singer Sylvia Izabella's strained-yet-sultry voice is folded into layers of discordant bass riffs, creating a moody, dark, and minimalist sound. This rock trio employs a baritone guitar and a bass rather than a traditional electric guitar, bringing everything down an octave lower than expected and contrasting sharply with Izabella's high-register caterwauling.

-Andrea Swensson (City Pages)



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Kill to Kill is the coolest kind of band — the one with a hot chick singer who plays the bass, like the two Kims: Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Deal (Pixies).

The fact that the up-and-coming Minneapolis group credits the aforementioned bands as influences is audible in their noise-rock screeching riffs and the pleasing caterwauling from the throat of its redheaded frontwoman, Sylvia Izabella.

If Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was magically possessed with the smoky sexiness of Cat Power and fronted a band made up of Thurston Moore and experimental Velvet Underground, you’d get Kill to Kill.



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-KARA NESVIG (MN DAILY)



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*********************MPLS-based 90s alt-rock revivalists (think of them as a less angry, but similarly feminist cousin of Baby Guts, or the little sister of Sybris) Kill to Kill have posted a new demo to their MySpace page titled "Kid Whore," and if you're a fan of any of the previously mentioned groups, you should like this. Beginning with haunting, clean-toned minor-key arpeggios, singer Sylvia Izabella starts to read off a list of kiss-off lyrics ("I hope your plane falls"), when the band comes in to keep a solid, sturdy beat, before everything explodes for the chorus (if chorus explosions could also have atmospheric singing, which this does). All in all, a solid track.



-Jon Graef (MFR)

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