Kira

Here is a few quotes from the Danish press reviewing the album "The Rail Train, The Meadow, The Freeway and The Shadows"
released September 2008.

Berlingske tidende: The Sound of a song-writing talent that has found its shape. Powerful! *****

BT: Kira has never sounded better. She deserves an audience all over the globe.*****

Soundvenue: "A distinguished talent" ****

Information: Kiras new album suits her. Her new band The Ghost Riders suits her. Her song-writing partner Nicolai Munch-Hansen suits her. The new songs suits her voice. It all is becoming.

Review in the independent Oct. 2007 Kira, Metro, London
By Pierre Perrone.

It's hard to make an impression when you're first on at Metro, the basement venue that showcases new talent, but the Danish singer Kira does just that. Launching into the brooding "Save Me", she grabs the audience's attention right away.

With her high cheekbones and dark hair, Kira Skov – her full name – oozes sex appeal. She's more feral than kittenish, though, and straps an electric guitar on for "Pressure", which combines the best elements of the Velvet Underground, The Cramps, Echo & The Bunnymen and PJ Harvey. When she yearningly sings "I've been waiting for you" in "Skating Your Pool", there is a simmering, bewitching intensity about her delivery.

"Skating Your Pool" is Kira's debut UK release for Brown Punk, the label launched by Tricky with the help of Chris Blackwell. It's easy to see why they have compared her soul punk sound to Janis Joplin (though someone with a more encyclopaedic knowledge may mention Gayle McCormick of Smith, the late Sixties American band whose take on "Baby It's You" has recently been included by Quentin Tarantino on the Death Proof soundtrack). Mind you, The White Stripes are never far from anyone's mind.

"Losing You", Kira's signature tune with The Kindred Spirits, her previous band, wows the Danish expats, but it's her voodoo-like rendition of "Make a Man" that sticks in the mind. It's on a par with Tina Turner's Acid Queen in Tommy. The amazing thing about Kira is that, unlike so many current acts, she lives up to these comparisons.



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"Kira Skov is the kind of rock diva that comes around once, maybe twice in a generation and she held the stage, as if trying to transform the underground space into a packed stadium by force of will. in spite of being pressed by an instrument-heavy mix, this cat-like singers tremulous, soulful alto, seemed always to be moving in on its prey, and demanding it be a worthy capture." Globe and Mail, Canadian music week, March 4th, 2006.

Kira And The Kindred Spirits: * * * * * (5/6) ”Less is more, and Kira & The Kindred Spirits lived happily ever after in the charts…” - Berlingske Tidende (nationwide newspaper)

***** (5/6) “a damn strong Spring sign of an album.” - Politiken (nationwide newspaper)

* * * * * (5/6) “Even better… again. Kira & The Kindred Spirits have come to stay.” - B.T. (nationwide newspaper)

* * * * (4/6) “Competent Kira. Kira Skov possesses both charisma and strong vocal chords as well as an extraordinary tight playing band.” - Ekstra Bladet (nationwide newspaper)

* * * * (4/6) “a devil-may-care attitude as seldom seen on the Danish rock scene.” - Soundvenue (music magazine)

* * * * (4/6) “with the band producer Tore Johansson has created a rock-symphonic production with view to the wide open spaces.” - Jyllands Posten (nationwide newspaper)

* * * * (4/6) “Changing arrangements, excellent band work and more facets to Kira Skov’s singing makes for a playful cool and clear style.” - MetroXpress (nationwide newspaper)

This Is Not An Exit: Gaffa: *****, BT: *****, Woman:***** Jyllandsposten:**** Berlingske tidende:****

Happiness Saves Lives: Gaffa:****, Jyllandsposten:*****, Gyllendal:******

"Live the music proved to be of a different intense and sensual nature. Carried out by a singer who is remarkably at one with her material. With enormous shifts between the possessed, the sincere and the physically explosive, Kira Skov is, with her great vocal repertoire, a natural talent of the rarest kind. It is very hard not to be impressed with the young Danish gypsy. Kira Skov, with her limber body and vocal-cords will reach great heights, if she can keep the intensity". Politikens review of the concert at Rust, Copenhagen.

"Kira and the kindred Spirits are a such an overwhelming experience in the lands of torn up blues and salty rock'n'roll, for all open wounds and naked vulnerability, that you wish to protect the band and yourself from all thinkable wrongs. You also wish to proclaim, that it must be insanity to place a band that would make The White Stripes pale and The Kills see a shrink on such an insignificant stage. "Erik Jensen, Politikens review of a concert at Midtfyns festival, summer 2003.
...... - The Globe and Mail, The Independent, Various Danish publications.