Kills Birds

“It’s from the opening lyric of our song ‘Worthy Girl,’” Kills Birds Bosnian-born lead singer Nina Ljeti tells us, of how they chose the name for their band. “It goes: this flower kills birds… And it’s literally about someone who once intentionally let a bird loose inside a crowded art gallery where it proceeded to get trampled by all the people…their reasoning was that it was for the ‘art’ but this was truly one of the cruelest things I’ve ever heard. That resonated with us—the tragedy of choosing to destroy something for aesthetic reasons.” Their sophomore album Married (out Nov. 12, recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606) is the unapologetic zinger we’ve all been waiting for. From first listen, it’s clear the only thing they’re killing is any chance of anonymity. They’ll be touring through...