"Oh it’s not the same / When I can’t feel you by me baby / You’re falling away / And I can’t begin to name it..."
The pearly indie rock punches and dreamy persuasions of "It's Not Over" by Minneapolis, Minnesota's Kiss the Tiger, from their fourth full length "Infinite Love", is as fresh as it feels nostalgic, a tightly wound progressive jangle pop-esque affair with romance tentacles from 60's doo wop, 80's alt rock, 2000's retro rock featuring Meghan Kreidler's evocative, passionately dream crush vocals. The dense, artful musicality is something to behold as the shuffling drums switches things up as the bass rushes and drops back like a roller coaster, the open picking chords feel sort of surfy Western noir and rockabilly, the lead work superb and Kreidler's vocal countenance, a combination of fragility, longing, wailing declarations is gorgeous (as usual).
I am feeling like this song feels artfully, psychically adjacent to some of The Pretenders work and Concrete Blonde (feel other connections as well). Point being, this is special stuff, art that feels like expressions of personal reflections and artful inspirations. This is not commoditized art, no fucking way. I love this track, a perfect beginning, an explosive endearing middle, and the galloping harmonious ending with sustained guitar lines... chef's kiss.
LINER NOTES (excerpted, bracketed):
[Fronted by the magnetic and disarming Meghan Kreidler, who draws on her background in theater to break the fourth wall between audience and band with her righteous fist pumps and high kicks, this is a band that doesn’t just play. They combust. And watching them set the stage ablaze, it’s hard not to feel that tension that’s been built up in all of us these past few years slowly release, too, like a collective exhale set to ratcheting guitars, buoyant bass lines and Kreidler’s perfectly pitched screams. Theirs is a clean-burning fire. Hell, you might even call it healing.
“We want to give the audience an experience that is visceral and jolts them awake—creating community in that moment,” Kreidler notes. “I think that’s a really nice gift you can give people: Just let go.”]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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At a time when the world seems intent on pushing us further inward and further apart, Kiss the Tiger are here to rattle our bones and bust us out of our cocoons with some good old fashioned rock and roll. Fronted by the magnetic and disarming Meghan Kreidler, who draws on her background in theater to break the fourth wall between audience and band with her righteous fist pumps and high kicks, this is a band that doesn’t just play. They combust. And watching them set the stage ablaze, it’s hard not to feel that tension that’s been built up in all of us these past few years slowly release, too, like a collective exhale set to ratcheting guitars, buoyant bass lines and Kreidler’s perfectly pitched screams. Theirs is a clean-burning fire. Hell, you might even call it healing. “We want to give the audience an experience that is visceral and jolts them awake—creating community in that moment,” Kreidler notes. “I think that’s a really nice gift you can give people: Just let go.”
At a time when the world seems intent on pushing us further inward and further apart, Kiss the Tiger are here to rattle our bones and bust us out of our cocoons with some good old fashioned rock and roll. Fronted by the magnetic and disarming Meghan Kreidler, who draws on her background in theater to break the fourth wall between audience and band with her righteous fist pumps and high kicks, this is a band that doesn’t just play. They combust. And watching them set the stage ablaze, it’s hard not to feel that tension that’s been built up in all of us these past few years slowly release, too, like a collective exhale set to ratcheting guitars, buoyant bass lines and Kreidler’s perfectly pitched screams. Theirs is a clean-burning fire. Hell, you might even call it healing. “We want to give the audience an experience that is visceral and jolts them awake—creating community in that moment,” Kreidler notes. “I think that’s a really nice gift you can give people: Just let go.”
Kiss the Tiger, Twin Cities, "It's Not Over" , fourth album "Infinite Love", indie rock, retro rock, psych rock, jangle pop, alt rock, balladic rock, doo wop punk, artful, passionate art makers, killer vocalist Meghan Kreidler,
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