The Kills Cover Billie Eilish For ‘Happier Girls’ Sessions EP

The Kills will release their new ‘Happier Girls’ sessions EP on September 20th.

The band – Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart – released their ace ‘God Games’ album last Autumn, before playing some incendiary shows on both sides of the Atlantic.

Recently touching down in London to play All Points East, the duo have now lined up a new EP.

If ‘God Games’ was electric, then new ‘Happier Girls’ EP represents the acoustic flip-side – it’s stripped back, but no less intoxicating.. and it’s out this Friday (September 20th).

The band have also recorded a tender take on the Billie Eilish song ‘Happier Than Ever’ – initially recorded for Sirius XM before being presented on streaming for the first time.

The Kills’ Alison Mosshart comments…

 It’s all Sirius XM’s fault. We were asked to do an acoustic session with them last year and they’d asked for a cover as part of the session. I’d always really dug ‘Happier Than Ever’ and found myself singing it around the house all the time. It seemed like a good choice, since I loved it and loved singing it.

After that radio session hit the airwaves, Laurence Bell from Domino reached out to us enamoured with our acoustic version of the song and asked us to do an electric recording. Here we were in London, recording a non-electric EP and what’s the first song on it? An electric cover of the acoustic cover we did… and the more electricity the better. Thank you Billie for writing such a brilliant song!

Tune in now.

Tracklist:
1. Happier Than Ever
2. 103 – Non-Electric
3. New York – Non-Electric
4. Better Days – Non-Electric
5. My Girls My Girls – Non-Electric

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Photo Credit: Myles Hendrik