Kill Creek were formed in Lawrence (Kansas) by Scott Born (vocals) and Ron Hayes (guitar).� Kill Creek and Cthonic, the self-produced cassettes from 1993, propose a rocky and noisy power-pop.� The catchy Fruit Pie carries the EP Stretch (Mammoth, 1994), while on the album St Valentine's Garage the most passionate (Busted), desperate (Die Young), and elegiac (Kelly's Dead) moments stand out, infused with U2-style epicness and Nirvana-like dark omens, to the detriment of confused songs like Cosmetic Surgery and Fruit Pie and their melodic contortions.� Thus, their pessimistic philosophy and the portrait of a generation obsessed with defeat and death emerge clearly.�

The sound of Proving Winter Cruel (Mammoth, 1996) is too generic.

Still undecided between post-rock, emo-core, alt-country and grunge, Kill Creek delivered yet another confused album, Colors of Home (Second Nature, 2001), whose Hardly Accounted For (focused, captivating, tuneful) is the exception rather than the rule.