“We had all these demos, and this record was burning a hole in us.”

They are afraid to be forgotten by the world, but at the same time, eager to make a brilliant record that represents the best. Like all creative minds, the battle begins with every brilliant idea.

The songwriting part of God Games reminded them of “making our first record,” but the hard stuff rolled out with the change. Hince convinced Mosshart to buy a $100 keyboard, and for the first time in The Kills’ music career, they based the writing of an album not on a guitar, but on a keyboard.

“It’s part of the journey of a band when you want to be a band forever,” Hince told NME, but when you’re the one making the decisions, a brilliant idea and a bad one feels almost the same.

“I was terrified because there was so little guitar,” he admitted. “Frame of mind is a weird thing because we’re quite happy with the record. When you look at it in retrospect you imagine all your faults, mistakes, hesitations, stresses, and tantrums were all meant to be.”

This changes everything. It’s nerve-wracking, but at the same time, necessary. The Kills have been making music since 2001, and without muscle memories and tapping into the same ways of thinking burned into guitar rhythms, this new approach blew their creativity wide open. God Games gives listeners another chance to meet the band for the first time, experiencing their trademark gritty rock ‘n roll in another dimension.

The dual single, “New York” and “LA Hex” shows a gritty kaleidoscopic sound experience with volume, coming with a sort of in-and-out-of-space vibe. They are done keeping it quiet.

Essentially, every song on God Games started at a humble moment, embarked on a journey before landing at someplace unexpected. Hince said that the inspiration for “LA Hex” came from him standing on a street corner in LA at 2 a.m., hearing all sorts of sounds from one ear to another.

“You’d hear trap music in one car, and the other way, you’d hear mariachi music, and then the other way you’d hear some rock and roll…and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to make a song like that?’”

It wasn’t their intention to make the record sound like anything. Just following the fleeing idea of a moment and allowing it to grow like wildfire.

God Games is set to release on Oct. 27.