Until There's Nothing Left of Us

by Kill Hannah

Overview

The continual dividing and multiplying of musical subgenres may sometimes seem absurd, but bulky as they are, all those tiny little classifications are still necessary. Kill Hannah's 2006 release Until There's Nothing Left of Us is a good example of why: an album most easily described as indie-shoegaze-electro-post-hardcore-emo-dream pop-rock. The only drawback to describing music this way is that it implies that the record is eclectic, when in fact, Kill Hannah's sound takes the most related elements of these disparate styles and omits the aspects of each that might make their combination sound disjointed. This wide sampling of so many influences finds the band dipping their creative cups into numerous genres with enough depth to integrate them and enough restraint to avoid their cliches: the slickly feminized male vocals sound sassy and adolescent but never breach into emo-catharsis; the distorted vocal harmonies call to mind My Bloody Valentine but never become lost in their own ambience; and the unabashedly heavy production transforms the buzzing of guitars into some kind of growling synthesizer without ever succumbing to vapid goth pop a la My Chemical Romance. When given a choice, Kill Hannah pick accessibility over high art on this record, but those looking for a substantial and sophisticated successor to Fugazi, the Cure or Jesus and Mary Chain should find what they're looking for here. ~ Cammila Albertson

Product Details

Release Date:	08/01/2006
Label:	Atlantic
UPC:	0075678397226

Tracks

1. Life in the Arctic
2. Believer
3. Lips Like Morphine
4. Black Poison Blood
5. Love You to Death
6. The Collapse
7. Statues Without Eyes
8. Crazy Angel
9. Under the Milky Way
10. The Songs That Saved My Life
11. Scream
12. Sleep Tight

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kill Hannah   Primary Artist
Juliette Beavan   Vocals
Jon Radtke   Piano,Vocals,Synthesizer
Matt Skaggs   Loops,Sampling,Synthesizer
Mat Devine   Piano,Vocals,Synthesizer
Sean Beavan   Vocals
Garrett Hammond   Drums

Technical Credits

Ted Jensen   Mastering
Garrett Hammond   Programming,Engineer,Producer
Tony Couch   Management
Greg Corner   Group Member
Matt Salazar   Assistant Engineer
Andrew Zach   Art Producer
John C.F. Davis   Management
Eric Altenburger   Photo Composites
Errin Familia   Assistant Engineer
Jon Radtke   Composer,Group Member
Pete Novak   Mixing Assistant
Mat Devine   Design,Composer,Group Member,Art Direction
Alex Kirzhner   Design,Art Direction
Tom Baker   Mastering
Jason Cupp   Assistant Engineer
Dean Nelson   Assistant Engineer
Johnny K   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Sean Beavan   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Karin Jansson   Composer
Matt Devine   Composer
John Rubeli   A&R
Cerise   Model
Cerise Leang   Model
Steve Kilbey   Composer
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing
Joseph Cultice   Photography,Cover Art Concept
Josh Mills   Assistant Engineer