Kids In Glass Houses are back - and boy are they sounding good. It's always a sign of supreme confidence when you launch your new album with it's own mini-site, and that's exactly what the band have done for their new LP In Gold Blood.
The record's first taster track Gold Blood was initially offered as a free download - the song sees the band taking on a far rougher, gritty sound than the New Wave-inspired gloss-pop of Dirt. Feedback screeches over guitar hooks that pickaxe their way into the senses while the chorus sees the band heading more towards the territory of fellow Welsh rockers Lostprophets.
And if Gold Blood is good, Animals is even better. Last Monday Zane Lowe played the track as his 'Hottest Record' . Thundering guitar lines and a big chorus to rival anything off the band's last two albums, Animals looks set to be a big live favourite - it's also the perfect track to announce with a bang that they're back.
If you weren't lured in by their previous material, this will be the one that really gets you - whereas the band's past singles could at times come across as fey and innocent, this new Kids In Glass Houses has been there and done it all; now they're back, dirty and bruised and with the passion set to boil.
The band described their new album as a game-changer, and if these two tracks are anything to go by, it looks a fair bet.
The new, re-invisioned Kids In Glass Houses see the band entering their adrenaline fuelled adolescent stage - wild and packing a formdible punch, it's a stage in their development we have every intention of riding with.
Gold Blood is available to download from iTunes now. The album In Gold Blood is released on the 15th August with Animals preceding it, the week before.
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