Rebel Flesh

Kill ... With Your Kiss

Texas Platters

Unleashing its third full-length since 2015, San Marcos quartet Rebel Flesh emits a midtempo buzz akin to Dee Dee Ramone writing songs for the Misfits. Kill ... With Your Kiss is the best-produced of the trilogy, complete with nice touches like opening track "No One to Love" emerging from the sweep of an AM radio dial. The guitars sound as much like Boston's Tom Scholz as they do Johnny Ramone, and there's a dab of Phil Spector inside these macabre rockers like "Spider Inside Her" and "Shadows."

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