Hot Club De Paris - Hey House Brick

TRACKLISTING: (1) Hey Housebrick (2) I Let the Drunk Girl drive Me

OVERVIEW: ‘Live at Dead Lake’ is the second album from art-pop experimentalists Hot Club de Paris. Expanding on the quick-fire tech-ridden pop punk blasts and wit-fuelled commentaries of 2006’s Drop it Til it Pops, Hot Club de Paris continue to explore their use of skewed rhythms, accomplished musicianship and poetical themes.
Since Hot Club de Paris embarked upon their punishing tour schedule two years ago (playing with artists and bands such as Jamie T, Maximo Park, Battles, Foals, The Who), the three-piece have developed into an almost single-celled organism and have become one of the tightest and entertaining bands on the world’s small and sweaty stages. After spending the entire summer of 2007 in their hometown of Liverpool working on their follow up, the band called upon Chicago producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron and Wine, Ugly Cassanova, Sea and Cake) to document their new songs.
The first single to be taken from the album is ‘Hey! Housebrick’- released on May 26 –documents the creeping claustrophobia of small-town living and the destruction and devastation produced by such negative forces. Guest vocalists from Liverpool twee-sters Puzzle were called upon for backing vocal duties and dainty handclaps.
If someone was to ask who it is that influences Hot Club de Paris, the band would probably give you a list that looked something like this: Owls, Don Caballero, Billy Bragg, Tim Etchells, XTC, The Minutemen and Mike Watt, Storm&Stress, Joan of Arc, Talking Heads, Cap N Jazz and John Fahey.

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