Kills Birds announce album + tour, sign with Royal Mountain Records and share new single and video

KILLS BIRDS ANNOUNCE SOPHOMORE ALBUM MARRIED DUE OUT NOVEMBER 12 AND SIGNS WITH ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS PRE-ORDER HERE THE BAND SHARE NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO "RABBIT" OUT NOW VIA ROYAL MOUNTAIN RECORDS & KRO RECORDS WATCH VIDEO HERE | LISTEN HERE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED WITH SLEIGH BELLS + FOO FIGHTERS

Praise for the debut album:

"The debut album from Kills Birds is a furious, fuzzy bombshell...The album's rumbling, squealing opening track is the perfect soundtrack to 100 beers spilling on the floor of a dark rock club."

"This fledgling Los Angeles quartet led by Bosnian-born singer Nina Ljeti doesn't waste any time on its combustible 26-minute debut album."

"Kills Birds has already pulled off the rare feat of making a confrontational rock record with the kind of buzz reserved for emerging pop acts...  Watching Kills Birds onstage, it's hard not to be taken in and shaken up."

"Nina Ljeti's voice sits right at the center of Kills Birds' taut, blustery sound: Raspy and direct, it blurts, chatters and shouts with commanding intensity. On Kills Birds' self-titled debut, the band works double-time to conjure huge, booming sounds to match Ljeti's intensity — most notably in the form of Jacob Loeb's massive storm-cloud guitar riffs, which billow menacingly around her."

“Mandatory listening”

"bleeds with stark confidence, primitive guitars and grating lead vocals, and it embodies the slightly threatening but ultimately exhilarating swagger that you get from spitting on the concrete or gleefully launching into a mosh pit."

“Kills Birds Is The Rock Band We Need Right Now: Kills Birds illustrates explosive and gritty rock on the cusp of a new punk explosion."

Photo credit: Cheryl Georgette

Today, LA-based incendiary rock band Kills Birds are sharing their ferocious new single "Rabbit," the opening track and first song to be released from their sophomore album Married, out via their new label home Royal Mountain Records and KRO Records on November 12th. Recorded at Dave Grohl's Studio 606 by invitation of the man himself, it is a storming and immediate declaration of intent from the LA-based band, a brutal and intense account of an abusive relationship struggling with power dynamics, oscillating between quiet and loud dynamics - both beautiful and aggressive, devastating and cathartic.  WATCH: Kills Birds' "Rabbit" video on YouTube On the track, vocalist Nina Ljeti explains, "Lyrically, "Rabbit" is about the experience of being in an abusive relationship with a powerful person. To be with someone who was praised by the public, but hurt you (and others) in private really eviscerates your self-worth. There's nowhere to turn for help. Like many people who share this experience, this particular relationship defined the majority of my young adulthood, and I’m still dealing with the emotional consequences of it." Guitarist Jacob Loeb continues, "'Rabbit" was the first song written for the new album. Despite being one of the harder-hitting songs on the record, it was originally written on an acoustic guitar at Nina’s house. The goal was for the chorus to have an almost disorienting quiet/loud dynamic which really came to life when we plugged in and all practiced it for the first time. We tried to make the chorus start so quietly that the listener feels like something went wrong with their speaker and has to kind of lean in to hear Nina singing before the repetition of “how could I?” abruptly and violently re-enters, startling them and making the emotion visceral." On the video itself, Ljeti who is a filmmaker herself, having recently made a music video for Crowded House featuring Mac DeMarco, says, "it’s interesting to be on the other side of the camera for “Rabbit”, especially since the concept of the video involves an unseen crew doing a rehearsal take of our performance. though i had no problem relinquishing control as a performer for Susie (the director) it’s not something i’m really used to anymore. so it’s an exciting challenge." The band adds, "For Rabbit, we wanted to depart from the lo-fi aesthetic of our first record and come back with something that was super vivid, bold and direct. The idea was to capture the raw energy of our live performance, particularly from Nina, in the sterile and stilted setting of a film set, with the camera itself becoming this kind of ominous force that manipulates and distorts what it captures." Led by LA-based and Canada-raised Nina Ljeti (who The LA Times deemed “L.A.’s most electrifying new rock singer”) and rounded out guitarist Jacob Loeb and bassist Fielder Thomas, it's the first track from Kills Birds since their debut self-titled won fans at outlets like NPR, NYLON, The FADER, The New York Times, Paste Magazine, Chicago Tribune, as well as musicians like Kim Gordon, Hayley Williams of Paramore and Dave Grohl, the latter of which recently invited the band to join Foo Fighters in Mexico City two days before the album's release. The band will also be opening for Sleigh Bells on a nationwide US tour in October. Full dates are below. Kills Birds' Married is out on November 12th via Royal Mountain Records and KRO Records. You can pre-order it here.

Photo credit: Cheryl Georgette

Kills Birds Tour Dates 10/05 - Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theater * 10/06 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry * 10/08 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge * 10/09 - Charlotte, NC - The Underground * 10/10 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage * 10/12 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live * 10/13 - Austin, TX - Mohawk * 10/15 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater * 10/17 - Denver, CO - Gothic * 10/18 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall * 10/20 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom * 10/21 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom * 10/23 - Oakland, CA - The New Parish * 10/26 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom * 10/27 - Vancouver, BC - Venue Nightclub * 10/28 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox * 11/10 - Mexico City, MX -  Foro Sol W/ Foo Fighters 11/13 - Monterrey, Mexico - Pal Norte Festival 12/02 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar 12/03 - Joshua Tree, CA - Pappy's (indoors) 12/07 - Chicago, IL - Schuba's 12/09 - Toronto, ON - Garrison 12/10 - Ottawa, ON - Dominion Tavern 12/11 - Montreal, QC - Ritz 12/14 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (Zone One) * Dates with Sleigh Bells

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Tracklist for Married LP 1. Rabbit 2. Cough Up Cherries 3. Natalie 4. Glisten 5. Reasoning 6. Offside 7. Woman 8. PTL 9. Good Planning 10. Wallowing 11. Married

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