First Impressions is a segment where we let you into our early thoughts on a highly anticipated album, This week, we have our early views on Kiss Kiss’ The Meek Shall Inherit What’s Left. It drops July 7th, 2009 on Eyeball Records.

Kiss Kiss is the kind of band I love to discover and I’m sure the same goes for a lot of you out there or else you wouldn’t be reading sites like UTG. Kiss Kiss is one of those amazing acts that the masses seem to have not yet discovered or totally missed the boat on. You know, the kind of act that drops your jaw, yet draws blanks from most people initially? I came across the rock oddity that is Kiss Kiss befor etheir last record was released and couldn’t wait to see how the band would evolve on their upcoming album, The Meek Shall Inherit What’s Left [which, by the way, is my favorite album title of the year]. If you’re unfamiliar with Kiss Kiss, it would take pages to explain their now signature sound to you, but I’ll paraphrase by saying: expansive. What may at first appear as an evolved rock act, transforms into a demonic circus in one minute and to a full blown piano based epic in the next. “Plague #11” sounds like Nine INch Nails collided with Panic! at The Disco [yes, when they had the exclamation], yet “Iiiiiii” and it’s follower “Hate” is more like the soundtrack to a Tim Burton love scene set in a Rob Zombie film. It’s pure controlled insanity and it’s quite captivating.

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James Shotwell is the founder of Under The Gun Review. He loves writing about music and movies almost as much as he loves his two fat cats. He's also the co-founder of Antique Records and the Marketing Coordinator for Haulix. You should probably follow him on Twitter.

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