Canadian dance rockers Hot Hot Heat announce their new album 'Happiness LTD'.
The British Columbia quintet bring their skinny jeans and slick style back to the rock arena after the mildly disappointing 'Elevator' album of 2005. In a press release, snake-hipped frontman Steve Bays says the album will be far more hard-hitting than their previous effortsHe announced, "It's difficult to describe its overall musical direction, but if I had to choose two adjectives I'd go with 'big' and 'aggressive,'" He continues, "As a band, we got most excited about the over-the-top, epic-sounding songs, so we kept pushing the tracks that way. The album has its fair share of seedy club songs, but they are dirtier and darker."
Bays also noted that they wanted influences to be more varied so the songs on 'Happiness LTD' were written everywhere from Spain and Japan to Australia and the UK.
The band worked on the eleven-track album with big-name studio boffins including Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), producer Butch Walker (Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects) and Tim Palmer (U2, David Bowie, the Cure). 'Happiness LTD will be out on Sire Records on September 11.
