The House That Dirt Built

by The Heavy

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Dan Leithauser Short Change Hero! Borderlands 2 and Strike Back classic.

𝕍 𝕚 𝕣 𝕘 𝕠 ♕ 𝕍 𝕒 𝕟 𝕕 𝕒 𝕝 sooooo Why isn't Short Change Hero streaming? Favorite track: Short Change Hero.

Beyr Absolutely legendary album that you need to own! Favorite track: How You Like Me Now.

smethyx I like the song short change hero so much!

Jimolrame Great album. Sadly the flac seems upscaled.

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1.	The House That Dirt Built 00:18	buy track
2.	Oh No Not You Again 01:53	buy track
3.	How You Like Me Now 03:37	buy track
4.	Sixteen 03:02	buy track
5.	Short Change Hero 05:22	buy track
6.	No Time 04:31	buy track
7.	Long Way From Home 03:18	buy track
8.	Cause For Alarm 04:43	buy track
9.	Love Like That 02:38	buy track
10.	What You Want Me To Do 03:22	buy track
11.	Stuck 05:26	buy track

about

The Heavy have been building. With a background in the joys of sampling and a foreground in scuzzy guitar, bass and beaten up drums, with schizo music tastes and a West Country pace, they’ve been building brick by dirty brick. Now they’d like to welcome you into their beautiful home for a little nose around, a kind of party if you like. And if a little blood gets spilled then that’s just how it is. Nobody said it was going to be a spread from “Hello” magazine. It will, though, be the best party you’ve ever been to.

“Oh No! Not You Again” starts things off, hitting like the garage-punk monster it is, Shingae Shoniwa of The Noisettes offering up the backing vox on a tune which sounds like Little Richard posssessed by the devil and turned up to 11. Main single, “How You Like Me Now” is pure voodoo-funk. “Sixteen” channels the ghost of Screamin’ Jay into a tawdry tale of Satan and his young bride. “Short Change Hero” is an epic Spaghetti Western love song calling on the youth to drop their tools. “No Time” combines a filthy break with thundering riffing about losing the love that was supposed to be forever. “Long Way From Home” is punk-blues of genuine yearning. “Cause For Alarm” is a reggae/2 Tone stepper, all crunched up and beaten-up for size. “Love Like That” is King Jammys updated Final tune. "What You Want Me To Do” combines the intensity of Hendrix with an obia ceremony. “Stuck,” shows that for all the wide-eyed madness, The Heavy can also come out with the most affecting love songs which effortlessly combine their many influences into something both completely new and utterless timeless.

Mixed and produced by Jim Abiss (best known for his work on the first Arctic Monkeys, Adele and Kasabian) and with Noisettes input on three tracks (The Heavy toured with them and have all became firm friends), “The House That Dirt Built” represents a huge step forward from an already fantastic debut in “Great Vengeance & Furious Fire”.

Since then The Heavy have toured the world and, where the first record was sample-based, the new one is much more a product of working as a band. Like the early rock ‘n’ roll, blues and rhythm and blues which have influenced it, “The House That Dirt Built” is larger than life, funny, terrifying and occasionally beautiful. It is, in fact, a house you’ll want to visit again.

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released July 18, 2014

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The Heavy London, UK

The Heavy return in 2023 with their sixth album AMEN, an exhilarating maelstrom of ‘60s R&B riffs, horns, and gospel harmonies, which is set to be the freshest and most revitalised record in their canon yet.

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Jun 14

Rosendal Garden Party

Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 21

Schäferwirt (Kuhstall)

Schwabbruck, Germany
Jul 10

Iberdrola Music

Madrid, Spain
Jul 11

Passeio Marítimo de Algés

Algés, Portugal
May 10

361 Grad im Spitalkeller

Offenburg, Germany

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