Album · Kills
Ash & Ice by Kills
Ash & Ice is an album by Kills, released in 2016. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Doing It To Death”, on 2 lists with a best position of #21.
Ash & Ice, the Kills' fifth album, arrived on Domino in June 2016, the follow-up to Blood Pressures from Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince. Hince produced it himself with John O'Mahoney co-producing, and the pair split the sessions between a rented house in Los Angeles and Electric Lady Studios in New York.
The duo formula is intact: Mosshart, the American singer, prowling and smoldering; Hince, the English guitarist, carving out bone-dry riffs over lean, clattering rhythms. But there's more polish and more patience here than on the scrappy early records, the grooves slinking rather than lunging. "Doing It to Death", the lead single, is the strut, and "Heart of a Dog" is the bruised, late-night follow-up. It climbed into the UK top 20, keeping their streak of charting albums alive.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Ash & Ice on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doing It To Death | 2 | #21 | – | 2016 | |
| 2 | Heart of a Dog | 3 | #59 | – | 2016–2018 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.