The Kill Devil Hills

THE KILL DEVIL HILLS formed in sun bleached Perth, Western Australia, in 2003 as a quiet acoustic folk project, but that was a dumb idea (way too quiet) and didn’t last very long, quickly swelling ranks like a looming tide, until 20 years, several children, and a few divorces later it has settled down (sort of) as 5-piece purveyor of tuneful rock / folk / post-rock cacophony, beautiful bastard noise, ugly but honest ballads, and gene-spliced sonic travesties… in other words, a rock band with a heart of mud and coal.

Seven albums later, with the most recent “Matango” released just months ago, the band has toured extensively in that time: Australia of course, but also to North America, and several tours to Europe. An entrancing, visceral, emotive, sensual and usually very loud live act, this is one of those special Australian mutant bands that only remote continents can cough up, a species confined to islands, fever-dreams, and occasionally to strut the stage a while.

Catch them if you can.