My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

Like John Waters kidnapped by Marilyn Manson and held hostage in a dilapidated dance club on the edge of town, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult is a campy, over-the-top, gothic disco party celebrating deviancy with wryness and incessantly throbbing beats. Characterized by sample-rich backdrops, clattering synthetic beats and the sex-obsessed ethos of psychobillies in form-fitting leather, the Chicago-based act formed more than two decades ago and rose to prominence on the strength of its autoerotic anthem "Sex on Wheelz." The group had lost steam by the millennium, following 2001's Reincarnation of Luna with a series of remixes and mothballed albums before dialing up fresh material for 2007's The Filthiest Show in Town. Thrill Kill maintains a modest momentum on this year's Death Threat, which features tracks such as "Invasion (of the Ultra Modelz)," whose lyrical promise of Danger, danger/Like sex with a stranger harks back to the Kult's old hijinks.