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Kisses UK Tour

• 11th Oct 2010

‘The Heart of The Nightlife’ is the aptly named title of the debut album from LA’s Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson, collectively known as Kisses.

Kivel and Edmundson make the kind of Balearic pop that variously calls to mind New Order’s Ibiza phase, Manuel Gottsching, Electribe 101 and the seminal disco productions of their idol and mentor Alex R Constandinos.

Through a combination of access to Constandinos’ productions (the name Kisses itself a nod to his ‘Love And Kisses’ project) and Kivel’s experiences as a travel writer, the idea for Kisses was born. Listening to the band’s debut album at times feels like staying in a luxury hotel or sailing on yacht en route to an exotic holiday. Theirs is a pop music born out of the celebratory moments in life, holiday romances, long planned for 3 day weekends and stumbled upon niteclubs down badly lit back alleys where the dj doesn’t know how to play a bad record. Each track on their album feeling like a grainy Polaroid image of one of these moments. It's a classic approach to pop , not afraid of its own sentimentality and with a sublime understanding of the desire at the heart of the music from the golden age of disco, the desire from the heart of the nightlife.

Tracklisting:
1. Kisses
2. Bermuda
3. People Can Do The Most Amazing Things
4. On The Move
5. The Heart Of The Nightlife
6. Lovers
7. A Weekend In Brooklyn
8. Midnight Lover
9. Women Of The Club

Live Dates: October
14th Manchester In The City
15th Manchester In The City
16th Leeds Nation of Shopkeepers
18th London Xoyo