Kevin Bronson on May 27th, 2010

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Hot Hot Heat, whose new album “Future Breeds” is coming out June 8 (on Dangerbird Records), is returning to its roots as the indie-rock band that frontman Steve Bays now wishes it would have been all along. “Future Breeds” is more like HHH’s breakout album “Make Up the Breakdown” than the two-major label albums that followed – spastic and surprising, dance-punk that doesn’t follow any diagram. During a recent interview while the band was doing a small club residency in New York, I asked Bays how it feels to be starting over as, essentially, a kid band. “It’s definitely one of those ‘If I knew then what I know now’ things,” he said with a laugh. “I don’t know if we’ll get to cheat reality successfully, but so far it’s been great.”

My story on the makeover of Hot Hot Heat appears in today’s LA Weekly.

||| Download: “Goddess on the Prairie” (via SPIN.com) and “Zero Results” (via RCRDLBL.com)

||| Live: Hot Hot Heat plays every Wednesday in June at the Bootleg Theater. The band also does an in-store at Origami Vinyl in Echo Park at 7 p.m. June 6.

Photo by Darren Ankenman