Future Breeds

If Future Breeds, the latest studio release from Hot Hot Heat, is proof of anything, it's that sometimes it takes a while to see things clearly. It's taken a decade of tours, albums, line-up changes and label switches - all rewarded with building commercial and critical success - for Hot Hot Heat to fine-tune its vision. But with Future Breeds, all that toil has coalesced into the band's most thrilling effort to date, one that coincidentally brings it full circle. On Future Breeds, Hot Hot Heat returns to its roots both metaphorically and literally with an album throbbing with spontaneity and creativity. When the band began writing Future Breeds, they sought to recapture the energy and sheer love for the art form that drove the late-nineties Vancouver punk scene from which the band emerged. Frontman Steve Bays turns Future Breeds into a poetic observation of the Vancouver neighborhood where the album was recorded