In their nearly 15-year career, the duo has released four albums. Each one of them sounds like a feverish, raw and enigmatic artistic statement, erected under tension and anxiety. Yet none of these albums sound like the last. It took five years for Ash & Ice to follow Blood Pressures, a delay mainly due to the five hand surgeries Jamie Hince underwent. Where the atmosphere of the previous albums was of detachment and emotional austerity, haunted by a dull anger, the 13 songs that make up Ash & Ice are more discreet, less tumultuous and more touching, exposing the contradictory feelings linked to a complex and devouring relationship. Ash & Ice is The Kills loaded with emotion. Let yourself be carried away.