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Hot Hot Heat release their third album entitled "Happiness Ltd.", The album is the band's first since 2005's "Elevator". Hot Hot Heat began writing new material in January 2005 the very day they launched a globe-trotting tour to support "Elevator". 'We wanted this record to be written on the road', says the band's co-founder and frontman Steve Bays, 'partly so the influences would be more varied, but also so we could test out the songs live before we recorded them. We wrote music everywhere, Spain, Japan, Australia, the UK, so each song has a different mood'.
Songs about sleeping, kissing bloody lips, books, love, sailors, mothers, carbon monoxide... Featuring piano, strings, a drum stick and a punk band, as well as a couple of glasses being smashed next to really expensive microphones... Regina Spektor - a Bronx girl via Russia. Made downtown, on the Lower East Side of New York City and in London, "Soviet Kitsch" was made with the help of Gordon Raphael, producer of The Strokes. It was a short time being born, and a long time being put out...
Less Than Jake's first album for major label Sire; "Anthem" is their most commercial yet. That's not saying it's bad - it's really good actually, and no band has worked harder to satisfy their fans than Less Than Jake, even signing a mooning fans arse in this very emporium. A lotta dosh has gone into making the sound just so and producing the 16 illustrations in the booklet which were provided by top underground artists (who are probably all mates with the band - that's what a major label budget's for after all).