The Kills return after seven years with "New York" and "LA Hex"

"New York" and "LA Hex" both have accompanying videos directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia.

To celebrate the singles, The Kills have announced two pop-up events in New York and Los Angeles. Taking place on 27 July in New York at rock/fashion photographer Steven Sebring’s expansive Lower East Side studio, and on 3 August at The Viper Room in Los Angeles. Both events will feature exclusive merch and a limited edition two track 7″ of the singles.

Fans will also be able to enter a raffle for the chance to attend an afterparty where The Kills will perform a DJ set later that evening.

This two-track release follows the 2016 album Ash & Ice, as well as the band reissusing their 2005 album No Wow in a deluxe box set featuring a new mix of the LP by Tchad Blake, last year. They also compiled the career-spanning B-sides and rarities album titled Little Bastards, which was released in 2020, and featured the band’s first 7-inch singles in 2002 through to 2009.

Speaking to Apple Music about the track "New York", Mosshart says: "I was in New York in the summer and I just felt incredibly brilliant for the first time in forever. I felt really, really inspired. I crashed a wedding... I didn't know anybody there. It was the best day. And then I went out with my friends and thenI just had this kind of euphoric moment and I came back to LA and I wrote "New York"".

"I was trying to get home at two in the morning, standing on the corner of the street in LA, and you just get this sort of bombardment of all the cars passing and all the different music coming out of the cars. So you'd hear sub bass and some trap snares, and then the other direction you'd hear a mariachi band and then a blast of rock and roll and some gospel choir. And I just really loved that cacophony. It was really LA to me," Hince says of "LA Hex".

"I sort of started formulating this song in my head where I wanted to wrap all those elements up, but I loved it because it reminded me like LA is a driving city, and it's like everyone's in a little capsule all the time, and you could sort of imagine these little conflicting capsules of emotion and feelings. So you got this sort of the hope and then the failure and the bitterness and the romance and all these things just colliding".