Article: HOT HOT HEAT ELEVATOR SIRE RECORDS

What a difference three years makes. Since Hot Hot Heat's 2002 debut, "Make Up the Breakdown," two major musical revolutions have arisen. The Canadian craze anointed dozens of our northern neighbors, like Montreal's the Arcade Fire. And the rage for pulsing, angular dance rock lionized the Rapture and Franz Ferdinand. Hot Hot Heat was a forerunner of both fads, as its members hail from Vancouver and offered a frenetic blast of keyboard-laced rock made for shaking it on their breakout album. Hence, their unenviable, if ironic, need to sidestep accusations of exploiting a vogue they in fact helped fashion. Their latest, "Elevator," succeeds by moderating what they've done before with greater ...

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