Taste Test: The Sweet Kill almost left for dead in ‘War’
Synthwave master excavates his tragic past with addition on a ravaging new song.
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Addiction is clawing your way to the surface only to find out the atmosphere is severely oxygen-depleted. It’s coming out of one dizzying high only to dive harder and deeper into the next. There’s rarely an in-between. Pete Mills, known onstage as The Sweet Kill, a disturbing dark-pop, synthwave wizard (we remain obsessed with his “Fuck Love” V-Day buzz track), collects the hazardous liquids of his past for a precarious warning. With “War,” pounding electronics scratching at him, Mills underscores the ravages of addiction and his near total sacrifice of body, soul and mind to the fang-toothed demons. “The world was cold / Yeah, my blood ran hot / Aimless days, ordering another shot,” he sings. He thrashes around in a bed of electric guitar chomps and synths that just won’t stop pounding at his bones. Once again, Mills dazzles and hypnotizes.
“War” is the first single to his forthcoming new EP, Love & Death, out later this year.
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