Hot Hot Heat — Elevator
By
Bryan Borzykowski (CHARTattack) April 5, 2005 2:49 pm
Music Review
- Elevator
- Reprise/Warner
- 4 / 5

Elevator, Hot Hot Heat’s latest, is a hooky distortion drenched dance party that turns their Make Up The Breakdown formula into more gold. The opening track, "Running Out Of Time," is louder, catchier and a hell of a lot more fun than Make Up’s lead track and Elevator’s favourable comparisons don’t end there. As usual, Hot Hot Heat’s intense and excitable melodies have as much to do with Steve Bay’s frantic vocals as the band’s jagged power chords. Their garage-y new wave will again find them in the broad category now called "sounds like the Strokes," and, unfortunately, The Killers will find their way in there as well, but with big scratchy guitars and captivating hooks, it’ll be Hot Hot Heat whom future bands will be tested against.
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