Alison Mosshart by David James Swanson
After nearly two decades with The Kills and gaining more success with Jack White and Dead Weather, Alison Mosshart is going it alone for the first time and has released her debut solo track Rise.
Whilst it’s taken 20 years for Mosshart to release her own music, she’s been quietly compiling solo material for a large chunk of that time; Rise first coming to life back in 2013. “I didn’t ever forget it,” she says. “I remember right where I was when I wrote it, sitting at my desk in London, missing someone badly.”
There’s been plenty of time to plan this next move for Mosshart; we have to go back to 2016 for the last Kills record Ash & Ice. “It’s rare indeed for artists to stay so in thrall to their own design for so long, especially when the whole art form around them continues to digest and regurgitate itself on an ever decreasing cycle of cannibalistic fervour,” Live4ever’s review reads.
“Mosshart and Hince have remained true to themselves in a way few others could even contemplate, much less sustain so successfully, and ‘Ash & Ice’ demonstrates that they’ve regained a momentum but more importantly a hunger which half after a decade away could easily have halted permanently.”
“It’s almost impossible to believe that all this aphrodisia comes from non-consummation, but for once waiting rarely sounded this good.”
