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but baby when are you gonna learn
now is not the time for the fire inside
to come out, come out and burn
Boston / DC band Kingsley Flood staggered onto my radar with a copy of their second release, Battles, earlier this year, and I’ve been hooked ever since. “The Fire Inside” is a perfect slice of what makes Battles such a great album: the weight and exhaustion of lead singer Naseem Khuri’s voice, the simple opening that segues into a lush and overwhelming instrumental break, the lyrics with all their love and pain. A song about loving someone almost too much, “The Fire Inside” is the kind of song you listen to on Valentine’s Day … if you’ve just broken up with your loved one. Hey, you’ll be in good company
Kingsley Flood’s sound is part Drive-By Truckers, part Fleetwood Mac, part perfect pop songwriting and part blinding wall of sound extremes, part ’60 rock and part Americana, all great.