HOT PANDA Bloody Volcano RARE NEW CD Arcade Fire CANADA

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  Hot Panda are from Edmonton, Alberta. Their debut, VOLCANO. BLOODY VOLCANO is full of attitudinal, slightly sloppy indie rock, with one distinguishing difference--they really know how to play. Feats of musicianship like the nimble guitar soloing on "Gold Star Swimmer" and the schizoid synths of "Cold Hands/Chapped Lips" are proof enough. Singer Chris Connelly has a touch of Mark E. Smith's sneer, mixed with the ebullience of his countrymen in the Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade. He explores usual topics like love ("Whale Headed Girl") and youthful transitoriness ("Chinatown Bus") in an original, unusual manner.

  Volcano...Bloody Volcano

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 The feeling you take away from Hot Panda's debut album Volcano...Bloody Volcano after a few spins is that the Edmonton quartet really love pop music. There are so many different kinds of rock and pop folded into their sound that you know they spent a whole bunch of time listening and studying records as they grew up. At different times throughout the album you can hear the upbeat tempos of new wave, the tough snarl of garage rock, the jittery atmosphere of postpunk (Talking Heads, in particular), the sunny jangle of indie pop, and the fractured songcraft of iconoclastic U.S. indie rock. Luckily for the listener (and the band) they manage to craft something out of all their influences that doesn't sound too in thrall to any one style or sound. It helps that the album fairly springs out of the speakers and into your lap like a friendly puppy dog, it also helps that the songs are short and jammed with catchy melodies. The only (possible) problem with the record is the vocals of Chris Conn...elly. He's from the leavingitalloutthere school of vocalizing, he doesn't so much sing the songs as he acts, squirms, and shouts his way through them. Sometimes it works quite well, like on the Falllike "Gold Star Swimmer," or any song where the spiky sound of the band matches his voice. Sometimes it falls a little flat and goes a little too far, like on the overly dramatic "Sexual Frustration." Next time out a little moderation could help things out a fair bit but for now, it's pretty easy to overlook the few moments that grate and enjoy the record. There's more than enough joyful racket and solid tunes in the Hot Panda sound to keep you coming back for repeated listens.

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While driving past a billboard advertisement for a Panda Hut, Chris Connelly jokingly asked his bandmates whether the Chinese buffet chain served steaming panda bear on rice. This spawned the name Hot Panda an appropriately cheeky name for a cheeky indie pop group. With an admitted inability to play their instruments with skill and a love for peppy melodies, the members of the Canadian fourpiece take a lofi approach to their music. Despite being rooted in '70s punk and Britpop, they sound nothing like the Buzzcocks or Television, two of their influences, and with sloppily played tambourines, glockenspiels, and accordion on their tracks, they more closely resemble Los Campesinos or the New Pornographers fronted by Daniel Johnston.

Hot Panda were formed in January of 2006 after Connelly and Maghan Campbell returned from living abroad in Oslo, Norway, and recruited Mike Robertson and Keith Olsen. They started practicing in a garage in Edmonton, Alberta, and by 2007 had recorded their first EP, Whale Headed Girl, and begun touring in a beatdown 1977 ambulance that they affectionately named "the Pig." Over a hundred shows followed over the course of a year, including shows at CMJ, SXSW, and Pop Montreal. Ultimately, the toils of the road wore down Robertson, who was replaced by multiinstrumentalist Heath Parsons. With Parsons taking guitar, accordion, and keyboard duties alongside Olsen on bass, Campbell on drums, and Connelly on vocals and guitar Hot Panda continued gigging, eventually taking the stage at the New Music West in Vancouver. There, the band caught the attention of Mint Records and was invited to play the indie label's Christmas party. They recorded their first fulllength, Volcano...Bloody Volcano, in February of 2008 with Ryan McVeigh in Winnipeg's Mid Ocean Studios. An official offer to sign to Mint followed in April, and Volcano...Bloody Volcano was released in February of 2009, at a CD release party in Edmonton on Valentine's Day.

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Hot Panda's debut full length was recorded in Winnipeg at MidOcean Studios by Ryan McVeigh (Boats!, Intercontinental Champion). Comparisons to giant luminaries such as Daniel Johnston and Talking Heads have been swirling about, and while it is always nice to be compared to such bands, Hot Panda has certainly found their own sound. Leaving behind the frozen garage jam sessions in which their musical explorations began, Hot Panda has been taking their unique blend of Britpop, Gypsy swing, glam, and lo-fi indie back and forth across Canada and the US since their formation in 2006.

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