You know damn well that Hollywood Kill is the sexiest band in LA in a gritty, Tarantino-films-Barstow, too-cool-for-any-school-you’d-know kinda way. And they know it, you don’t need to tell them. You can hear it in the low-voiced whispers in “A Real Nobody”, giving balance to the unsettling high-pitched keyboard sparks in the background, the beat driving on like a ‘65 Chevy filled with rifles and sweat through some forgotten part of the desert.

“Leave Your Troubles Behind” takes you plunging into the heart of Hollywood, with its sparkles of light and glamour against a pitch-black night. This song takes you into the club, with its anonymous bodies moving to their own rhythms  under a slow-flashing strobe light. 

“Walk On Fire” takes you into the world of the lurid…I always picture some kind of pimp who sends his lady out to become a big star. Hollywood Kill always manages to make their world sound so much cooler than yours. And they wear their sound well – their look is exactly what you’d expect. They’ve both got a kind of subdued sexiness that’s never in-you-face and that makes them even sexier as a band.

Speaking of sexy, they’re playing a pool party at the Standard Hotel next Saturday, July 12th at 5pm. You’d be pretty lame if you’ve got some cutie you want to impress and you don’t take them to the HK show.