Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart of The Kills releases debut solo single Rise on Domino Records.
Photo credit: Alison Mosshart & David James Swanson
Best known as one-half of acclaimed duo The Kills, when she’s not moonlighting as Baby Ruthless, the gnarly lead singer of blues-punk foursome The Dead Weather. Mosshart has collaborated with everyone from her Dead Weather bandmate Jack White to Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Gang Of Four, Foo Fighters and James Williamson (The Stooges). However the latest venture embraces her solo credentials.
With an already impressive career. “Rise” is a searing, slow-burner recorded for, and prominently featured in the final episode of Facebook Watch drama Sacred Lies and available now on Domino Records.
Mosshart has been compiling a bank of unreleased music for more than a decade now. Back in 2013, Mosshart first wrote the initial sketch of “Rise”, which finds the singer intoning, “When the sky is falling/ and the sun is black/when the sky is coming down on ya/baby don’t look back/we will rise.” Mosshart recalls: “I didn’t ever forget it. I remember right where I was when I wrote it, sitting at my desk in London, missing someone badly.” When the Sacred Lies team then sought out her skills for a signature song, she knew “Rise” had the right kind of vibe. “Rise” was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Lawrence Rothman.