In the standard offering (don’t ask me about all the variants) this has "Godhopping" and "Who Shot the Baby?" in the form of just-under-three-minute radio style pop killers.
DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS should be called something much shorter, snappier and wittier. Like BIG WHACK or something. These tunes are tangy little slices of sparky pop music with piano, doubled up tempo and doubled up vocal tracks. Cunning and crisply played guitar is a secret hidden ingredient. They have confident long lines like QUEEN and stuttering tempos like early DEXY'S or XTC. The moment for a resurgence of pure pop song genius offers itself once every couple of years, and a band sneaks through for a hit or two and a good album. MEN AT WORK would be a good ancient comparison – especially as Godhopping has echoes of their 1982 hit "Down Under". Dogs Die in Hot Cars are exciting live (touring the UK throughout May) and the single sounds good on the radio. It offers intelligence as well as sensation, and it should be massive. You decide.
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