The Kills have announced the release of a new EP, Happier Girls Sessions, this coming Friday (20 September), featuring "non-electric" versions of four tracks from their 2023 album God Games plus a cover of Billie Eilish's "Happier Than Ever".

The Eilish cover was first performed by the duo during an acoustic session for Sirius XM last year, but the recording on Happier Girls Sessions is a brand new and fully electric version. As vocalist Alison Mosshart explains in a press release:

"After that radio session hit the airwaves, Laurence Bell from Domino reached out to us enamoured with our acoustic version of the song and asked us to do an electric recording. Here we were in London, recording a non-electric EP and what’s the first song on it? An electric cover of the acoustic cover we did… and the more electricity the better. Thank you Billie for writing such a brilliant song!”

Listen to the track below:

Two versions of Happier Girls Sessions are available to pre-order: a 7" vinyl of "Happier Than Ever" with a non-electric version of "My Girls My Girls" on the B-side, and as a five-track digital EP.

Happier Girls Sessions tracklist:

1. Happier Than Ever
2. 103 (non-electric version)
3. New York (non-electric version)
4. Better Days (non-electric version)
5. My Girls My Girls (non-electric version)

Mosshart and her bandmate Jamie Hince head back out on tour next month for a couple of headline shows and a few festivals. Catch them in the following cities:

10/06 Memphis, TN @ Mempho Music Festival
10/08 Jackson, MS @ Duling Hall
10/09 New Orleans, LA @ Joy Theater
10/11 Florence, AL @ Billy Reid Shindig
11/02 Mexico City, Mexico @ Festival Hipnosis

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