The Living Kills

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For 10 years, Merrill Sherman recorded his songs alone on a four-track in an Alabama shack and later a Chicago basement. It wasn’t until he moved to New York City that he met the members who would become The Living Kills: organ/moog/vocalist Jennifer Bassett, bass player/vocalist Brenden Beu (previously of The Fearsome Sparrow), and drummer Yancy Sabenicio; the band’s first 7-inch, “You’ll Miss Me Most”, is a product of Merrill’s early recordings.
Over the last year, the band has continued to evolve this sound, inspired as much by forgotten 60’s rock and hammer horror films as the sensibilities and textures of post-rock. Their debut album Faceless Angels - produced and engineered by Brenden (Male Bonding, O’Death, Pissed Jeans) and mixed by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Mars Volta, At the Drive-In) – is a cohesive album that evokes everything from the lysergic mind-meld of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Calico Wall to the brooding power of The Black Angels and the wistfulness of early REM.
Of Faceless Angels, the full length follow up to the “You’ll Miss Me Most” single, Sherman says, “These are songs about my fears as a child and how I’ve come to embrace them… We limited ourselves to 60s and 70s equipment to create something distinctly modern, like aliens using primitive technology to return to their time–except when we cheated.”

CURRENT RELEASE: Faceless Angels