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Review: Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince - better known together as The Kills - present God Games, their latest ballad-rock opus for Domino Records. Composed off the back of a 100-dollar keyboard and in a makeshift studio nestled in an old church, God Games shoots squarely for a grandiose oeuvre, making use of stomping, brassy power pop motifs to evoke the sublime rapture of encountering god, whether that be in the raucous opening loom of 'New York' or the texturally gritty '103'. In an era where everyone plays god, and in which we all operate under the Nietzschean claim that god is dead, it seems The Kills could have the tools to light the way to a not-false idol.