The Dutch Kills fall hard for "Cheap Love"
Reveling in the freedom of youthful experimentation, The Dutch Kills explore uncharted territory beyond the confines of their earlier, sunnier singles with “Cheap Love,” a grungy blast of emotive East-Coast-meets-West-Coast alt rock that transmutes the exhausted sensation of afterparty fallout that propelled The Strokes’ early balladeering with the ragged, confessional vulnerability that Hole brought to sordid tales of relationships wrung out across endless nights of Sunset Strip hedonism.
“Cheap Love” opens with a lumbering cadence that rolls in measured cycles behind an appropriately scuzzy guitar riff, before expanding on the hook with an abruptly jagged shift in momentum that punches the accelerator deep beyond the redline with white-knuckle ferocity. Just as quickly the band takes their foot off the gas, settling back into the initial groove, a little rattled but refocused with eyes on the white lines. The moment of reprieve is brief, slipping once more into a high-octane frenzy, barreling towards an imaginary finish line that hovers beyond the precipice of a merciless comedown, bound for the floor with a single-minded fatalism rendered with the glorious inevitability of young love’s incendiary expiration.
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