Taste Test: Killjoy & the Cutthroats are ‘Running’ for their lives
The alternative outfit delight with an unsettling performance.
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There’s a terrible ghoulishness when you listen to Killjoy & the Cutthroats. “Running” slips and slides into a suffocating blackness, an overwhelming chill swelling the air, and you can’t escape. “In the midnight hour, you’re running for your life,” lead singer Kendal Killjoy beckons you into the orb. A disturbing backing choir of voices ring out their steely, unsettling incancation, mimicking Fortson’s pointed commands. “He’s quite the conquerer, a Hemingway / Your path is different, a road of somber trade.” The words tumble like rose petals, slicing through the air on the way down to cold, hard earth. In depicting such mundanity, boredom setting into the very bones, any manner of lustful urges erupt and fill in the gaps of loneliness and desperation.
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