Interwiew to DOGS DIE IN HOT CARDS
This Scottish quinteto as soon as singles has needed a pair and an album debut "Please Describe Yourself" (V2, 04), to become the best band of pop of all the United Kingdom. Pop understood like songs that wake up the senses, stretch consciences and destroy soles of shoes.
Like sensational the new Canadian disc of the The Hidden Doubles bed "Mississauga Goddam" (Rough Trade/Sinnamon, 04), Dogs Die In Hot Cars has signed one of those discs that make you feel alive, of which after listening to gives them to you desire to make things, and that, like best the pop one, show the good thing and the bad thing of the human existence.
It seems lie, but all the enumerated one before can be in a simple loaded disc of pop of wonderful songs, anything arty, pedantic snob or. Olvídense of conceptual discs, the symphonic rock or the progressive one, the Pink Floyd without Syd Barret and others, the pop one is the answer. The people in charge of Dogs Die In Hot Cars concentrate themselves, for such company, in the groups of pop more eighty and seventy outstanding of end first. In the Dexy´s Midnight Runners, XTC, Madness, The Boomtown Rats -"Somewhat Off The Way "is the perfect relectura of the" I Don´t Like Mondays -, or both first discs of The Talking Heads.
"I believe that the reason by that most of people it makes that comparison with the eighty is because, at that time, those bands that your you have mentioned, many songs wrote pop, something that we also do now. We do not want to sound alternative, we do not want to write songs that are difficult to pillar, we want to make songs pop ".
Craig Macintosh responds, leader of the Scottish band, a charming type that has a sense of very particular humor. It likes to play the confusion. But, they read its answer when him comment the obvious similarity - for anything negative of its music with the bands mentioned at the beginning of this article.
"I have never had one of the discs Dexy's Midnight Runners. Never in the life. The first time that I listened to them was one week before recording the disc. Because our producers - Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer, that have worked for Madness, Elvis Costello, Teardrop Explodes, Morrissey- worked with them and they said to me that he sang of similar form. And speaking of XTC and Talking Heads, the truth is that I like much, I have all its discs. But the true reason that it has and has listened them is because people said that we looked ourselves like them and I did not know those bands. Then, after listening to them pense ': These bands are jodidamente good because they sound like us! (laughter).
I recognize that the comparisons are valid, but we followed our way. The truth is that it comforts to know that there were other bands that also did what we do now, but really I believe that the only thing that it unites us to them is the process who we followed to create songs pop. Nothing else ". Be or noncertain the declarations of Macintosh, Dogs Die In Hot Cars have composed some of the best pieces pop of the season. Really pretty, efervescentes and stirring, that, of to be signed at the beginning of the eighty, already would be classic.
Subjects like "Celebrity Sanctum" - dedicated to Lucy Liu- ("When I write songs which I like is to put to me in the skin of a personage, to create it, imagining that I am another person. In that song I speak as if I was a person obsessed with the famous ones, a person who loses a little the sanity and she begins to think that she has contact with them, who are their better friends.
The song speaks of that obsession that for much people has not been happy because never will get to know their ídolos") or "Paul Newman´s Eyes" - the best song of the year -, two cuts that show one of the weaknesses of the leader of the Scot, the famous ones. She is not the unique one, Dogs Die In Hot Cars have, like his head, a sense of humor very personal present in the letters that write - like painfully tragicomic "Glimpse AT The Good Life" -, the promotional videos that they carry out and photos that they spend.
All a philosophy of life. "the truth is that simply we are thus. Often people misinterpret, or misinterpret the things to us, and she thinks that we are a humorous band or something of the sort. And there they are mistaken. You know, it is like the same life, there is dark things, problems and bad rolls, but you must write on them using the sense of humor.
That is the character of our band. That yes, for us the group and music is it everything, we are serious on that, but you cannot either be happened of serious ". That last one has it sure takes together from the fourteen years and seems that its moment has arrived. With discs as "Please Describe Yourself" is going it to have easy. With its first disc already they have signed a classic one.
