We can't remember what specifically led to Hot Little Rocket being invited to tour China in 2005 - but led to this CD, which includes five tracks which would show up two years later on their Steve Albini-produced How To Lose Everything album. [img width=674.672px]//7ca49eb9f67ba1319ef136f9d52cd8b8.cdn.bubble.io/f1771018389092x420763206942143400/richtext_content.jpeg[/img] [i]In a turn for the better, Hot Little Rocket have cancelled their cross-Canada fall tour, because they have been invited by the Canadian Embassy to tour China. That’s right, HLR seem to have this inherent need to do everything that Paul McCartney and Billy Joel do. But that’s not all — they’re travelling to Chicago in January to record their new material with legendary sound engineer Steve Albini (The Pixies, Nirvana, Low). Sound impressive?[/i] [i]“It’s not like he makes you take a hipness test with things like, ‘Where were you in 1989 and what were you listening to?’” says HLR’s lead vocalist Andrew Wedderburn. “It’s a real studio… where people record music for a living.” [/i] [i]Besides Albini having a reputation for being able to capture a consistently unique, natural “room-y” sound, he also carries with him a reputation in indie-rock circles of elite coolness. Methinks they’re bound to sell a few more copies than they normally would, just by being associated with the man. Their warm-up-for-China show is at Broken City on[/i] [i]September 29.[/i]
