| Killer Sounds | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Hard-Fi |
| Cover: | KillerSounds.jpg |
| Released: | 19 August 2011 |
| Recorded: | 2008–2011 |
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| Length: | 39:43 |
| Label: | |
| Producer: | |
| Prev Title: | Once Upon a Time in December |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Killer Sounds is the third studio album by English indie rock band Hard-Fi. It was released on 19 August 2011 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The iTunes bonus track "Like a Drug" was featured on the deluxe edition of the soundtrack of .
In 2022, frontman Richard Archer told The Independent that the band were not in a great place when Killer Sounds came out: "[W]e probably got frustrated with each other. There was a point when it got really difficult towards the end. Everyone lost a bit of love for it, but we always stayed friends. Certainly for Steve [Kemp, drummer] and I, we'd been in bands that hadn't worked out and we were super focused on 'we can't fuck this up'. And I think at some point, that became to the detriment of the project and to us, our mental health, because we should have just enjoyed it. Everything had to be 'we've got to get this right'. Instead of just rolling with it we were worried about everything."[1]
Upon its release, the album received mostly positive reviews from critics. The Metro gave it four out of five stars, saying: "Hard-Fi’s Killer Sounds features a collection of punchy potential hits on which a real sense of fun (and, dare we say it, camp) abounds."
A negative review came from James Lachno in The Daily Telegraph who awarded the album one star out of five. He called it "moody" and "humourless" and said that the "sexualised lyrics sound seedy – or worse, menacing".
All songs written by Richard Archer.
| Date | Format | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland[2] | 19 August 2011 | Digital download | Necessary |
| United Kingdom[3] | |||
| Canada[4] | 15 March 2013 | ||
| United States |