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Knock Knock Knock - Hot Hot Heat

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Manufacturer : Sub Pop
Release date : 13 December 2008
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0098787059427
UPC : 098787059427
Alternative (1), Ep (1)

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2002 release on Sub Pop from Victoria, BC based Hot Hot Heat. Five songs, 'Le Le Low', '5 Times Out Of 100', 'Have A Good Sleep', 'Touch You Touch You', 'More For Show', in 16 minutes produced in part by Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla.

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Track listing

1. Le Le Low
2. 5 Times Out of 100
3. Have a Good Sleep
4. Touch You Touch You
5. More for Show

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Knock Knock Knock

Posted : 1 month ago at Nov 16 14:01
Hot Hot Heat’s five song EP Knock Knock Knock is as quirky and jittery a neo-New Wave alternative dance party as Make Up the Breakdown. In fact, these songs wouldn’t sound out of place wedged onto the end of Breakdown. Bays’ nasal brat-punk voice is tailor made for music like this. “Have a Good Sleep” owes an obvious debt to Gang of Four (guitars), Elvis Costello (lyrics) and the Police (the almost ragga-like keyboards). “5 Times Out of 100” jerks back and forth between energetic party song and a dark, chaotic mid-tempo breather. And the metallic boot stomp intro to “Touch You Touch You” sounds like pure Devo-esque nerdy art-punk New Wave. While Hot Hot Heat never sound like they’re biting the style and posing as these bands, they do sound like they’re merging their r...Read more