What is it with this band and the double word thing? Anyway, a certain friend of mine made me happy this week when he mailed me Hot Hot Heat's Elevator. I don't know why I'd put off buying it for myself for so long. I mean I really love their Make Up The Breakdown, so it was natural choice to get. And now I have it. And since it was shipped to me from several thousand miles away, I'm saved walking the 60 feet off my walk to work that it would have taken to go into a store and purchase it here in town (I kid). Now I might have more to say about the album as a whole at a later time, but what is hitting me in just the right way today is "Goodnight, Goodnight" - and I have to wonder if part of it has to do with the hand clapping. Yeah, I know I have an unfortuante weakness for that at times (I did go through that The Legends phase, and I still love and adore The Magnetic Fields), but it's rarely put to such perfect dissonant use thematically as in a song that's basically a "get out of my life, and I hope the door does hit your ass on the way out" rant. It's pretty entertaining.
Posted by armand at August 6, 2005 04:23 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Music