Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown

Picking up where the Knock Knock Knock EP left off, Make Up The Breakdown completes Hot Hot Heat's transformation from a purveyor of the noisy synth-punk displayed on the band's debut into a polished, but still edgy, pop group. Where some of their contemporaries delve into '60s garage or '70s post-punk, Hot Hot Heat specializes in re-creating and reinvigorating the new wave of the late '70s and early '80s -- not the overly hairsprayed and eyelinered variety, but the geeky, abrasive pop pioneered by Elvis Costello, The Cars, Joe Jackson, and especially Xtc, whose Drums & Wires and English Settlement seem to have been particularly influential on Make Up The Breakdown. Read More