Kissing Cousins - EP2

Label: Velvet Blue Music

mp3: Deadline

So what do you like best? The tongue? The lips? The heavy petting? Southern California's all-girl band Kissing Cousins delivers it all on what I believe is the ultimate "make-out" CD.

In the past, the thought of "all-girl" bands conjured images of sweet, sugary, teenage-targeted crap that you could surely purchase at the mall. Here, Kissing Cousins puts together 4 songs that are dark, sexy, melancholy, and downright naughty- sounding. The EP opens with the slow-paced and slightly unnerving track "Deadline". The slow and steady pace of the song lulls you into the false sense that the CD is going to be safe and merely flirtatious.

The 2nd track "Live Without You" is more unsettling than the first as it starts gradually with Heather Bray Heyward singing "It's so cold alone..." before jumping your bones with the chorus of "I can't live without you." This track is followed by "Act of Birth" which lets you off the hook a bit, but is no less haunting and somber.This track is definitely as close to sweet as this EP gets. Heather's vocals are truly beautiful on this song with the gentle pianos underneath. The closer "Let You Down" is no soft and innocent goodnight kiss. The guitars have sort of a Black Sabbath type of nastiness with Heather throwing in some sexy sounding "Ah-Ahs" in the chorus.

There is nothing sweet or innocent about these 4 songs. After you listen to Kissing Cousins you will feel so dirty that you'll want to take a shower. I love every second of this EP and so will you.