Video: Hooray For Earth-"Warm Out"

Hip. Trendy. Fashion-conscious. Scenesters. Hailing from New York City, you might assume that Hooray For Earth has to fit into the round hole that every other band in the city is asked to fill. But like all of our favorite square pegs, they blaze their own trail into your heart. Even better, I'm not sure there's an easy way to describe their music other than to say they take great melodies and prefer to sooth your eardrums, rather than bash them in. Listen. Learn. Enjoy, while Noel Heroux talks about the [...]

En selverklæret hvidvinsbedugget Johannes Gammelby (I Am Bones) opfordrer os i en mail til at promovere Hooray For Earth, som ifølge ham er "verdens bedste band". Den må stå for egen regning, men numre som Warm Out og Videostore , som begge figurerer på EPen "Cellphone" (og også på Boston-bandets MySpace-side ), er bestemt en blogpost værd. De er nemlig, som Gammelby også påpeger, "rigtig gode møgsange, der fortjener lidt bevågenhed." Tjek videoen til Warm Out efter hoppet. I Am Bones tager i øvrigt på mini-turné til oktober, [...]

DOWNLOAD: Hooray for Earth, "Warm Out" (mp3) Hooray for Earth: odd band. Get 'em drunk, and they're liable to belt out a Justin Timberlake hit , or maybe one of Jacko's . Left on his own, their singer has been known to crank out Magnetic Fields covers . In their own right, HFE have carved out a unique niche that's equal parts indie breadth and metal brawn, like a second coming of Queens of the Stone Age. "Warm Out," taken from their new Cellphone EP, staggers forward on [...]

• Hooray For Earth - Warm Out

I can't decide which part of this Hooray For Earth video I like best - Noel Heroux in a sleep mask, the canoeing on Lake Winnipesauke scene (a reference to the classic film What About Bob? , which was also filmed there), the abundance of lamps, or the "happy springtime retreat ruined by axe-wielding creepy guy" theme. Or maybe it's just that "Warm Out," from Hooray For Earth's upcoming Cellphone EP, is an effing fantastic song; one that follows HFE's trademark amalgam of rumbling, snarling guitar, sweet blips of synth, and "goosebump melodies," as [...]