Dogs Die in Hot Cars

I just love Dogs Die in Hot Cars’ late summer 2004 release, Please Describe Yourself. These guys get compared to 80’s bands like Dexy’s Midnight Runners and XTC, but quite honestly I don’t know much (aside, of course, from “Come On Eileen”) about any of these bands.

I do think that they sound a lot like a British band with lots of 80’s influence, and almost every song on this album is catchy as hell. “Godhopping”, “Lounger”, “I Love You ‘Cause I Have To”, and the list goes on and on. Their quirky lyrics don’t exactly probe the depths of the human condition (I love Lucy / I love Lucy Liu / Yes I love her twice as much as you / Now there’s Jolie / Angelina Jolie / Could you ever look as good as she), but when songs are this infectuous, it hardly matters.