Alongside softly-strutting cymbals and a plodding, ominous bass line, Kim Deal — or at least the disembodied voice of her phantom self — tells the story of a (near?) perilous end with new track, Walking With a Killer.
Perfectly, eerily sung in that inimitable, casual-bordering-on-utterly-disinterested tone as only Deal can, the song contains such spine-tingling, lyrical gems as, “I know I should hide…” , “I know it was my night to die…” , “I would not survive…”
Perhaps this would’ve come off even cooler if released near Halloween — it effectively jerks us out of our delightful, near-Christmas reverie — but we’re on the our fourth listen of the track as we write, and are no less captivated by the compellingly dark tale.
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General says:
Dec 7, 2012
The more I listen, the more I love. Many favorite lines: “I slide to him/my thighs stickin’ along the seat”; “I am going out/with a dark star”; “I glow in the headlights/as they hit the street” — her solo acoustic version of this at ATP last weekend barely hinted at how cool the real thing would be.