To Kill A King

Xtra Mile Recordings is delighted to present the self-titled new album from the UK's best-kept secret, the ambitious and epic, 'To Kill A King!'

2014 was an incredible year for To Kill A King, playing at SXSW and touring with both Bastille and Frank Turner across North America. They joined Neil Young & Crazy Horse and The National at Hyde Park in July and have just completed a short run supporting Paul Heaton. Their 10" EP 'Exit, Pursued By A Bear' marked a slight change of musical styles – a beautiful taster to what will come with this much anticipated second album, recorded in London across late 2014 and mixed by Mark Crew (who produced Bastille's #1 album 'Bad Blood').

Their self-titled new album is the sound of a band hitting the peak of their powers. It's the sort of record that could only be made now, an album where stadium-sized choruses, artful dynamism and sonic experimentalism slide seamlessly together. It places the quintet firmly in the lineage of British guitar bands, such as Foals, the Maccabees and Bombay Bicycle Club, who make imaginative, exciting indie-rock. Like those groups, To Kill A King make music with no straitjacket on, a heady blend of youthful exuberance and spirited independence leading the way.