Released to little genuine fanfare, The Dead Weather (the new collaboration between Jack White and the Kills’ Alison Mosshart)’s ‘Hang You from the Heavens’ is everything Alicia Keys must wish ‘Another Way To Die’ had been.
Approaching overdose levels of dirty guitar, tribal beats, and pure greasy-hair-and-sweaty-bodies rock goodness, Mosshart’s angry/sexy vocalising lends the perfect counterpoint to White’s determined instrumentalisation, producing a partnership which leaves you wondering why they never thought of this one before.
And spare a thought for the truly brilliant B-Side cover of Gary Numan’s ‘Are Friends Electric?’, featuring Mosshart on pure adorable cigarette lisp form.
The superband to watch in 2009.
C.S.
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