Artist.......: Hot Panda
Album........: Volcano... Bloody Volcano
Label........: Mint Records
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: MRD-125
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-14-2009
str.date.....: 000-00-2009
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.hotpanda.ca/
track title time
01. Cold Hands/Chapped Lips 04:08
02. It's Worth Eight Dollars 04:23
03. What Headed Girl 04:32
04. I Tried Very Hard 03:27
05. Afraid of the Weather 03:58
06. Sweet Sweet Sweet 02:27
07. Holes 03:30
08. Gold Star Swimmer 04:33
09. O, Minoa! 01:56
10. Chinatown Bus 04:00
11. Bullhorn Romance 03:42
12. Sexual Frustration 03:57
Runtime 44:33 min
Size 63,7 MB
Release Notes:
When you get compared, in the same breath, to
everything from Daniel Johnston to the Talking
Heads, you know you have a sound that's hard to pin
down. Since their formation during the particularly
chilly winter of 2006, the members of Hot Panda
(Maghan Campbell, Keith Olsen, Chris Connelly, and
Heath Parsons) have yet to sit down and have the
discussion that goes: "So, what should we sound
like?". The result is a swath of tunes that sound
like anything and everything. Brit pop, gypsy
swing, opera solos, Robert Pollard style lo-fi
jangles, glammy Roxy Music keyboards, and "melodies
that will be impossible to dislodge from your
temporal cortex" (ChartAttack), all find their home
in the music of Hot Panda... sometimes all in the
same song!
After the recording of their 2007 EP Whale Headed
Girl, Hot Panda took to the road, and I guess you
could say the road took to them! The band hasn't
looked back since, ever wheeling over Canada in a
questionable 1977 ambulance, taking their
rambunctiously theatrical live show to "kids who
like to dance" all over the nation. In February
2008, Hot Panda took the time to travel to Winnipeg
and record their first full length record, which
will be coming out on Mint Records in the near
future!