Dogs Die in Hot Cars

I don’t know if are broken up or whether they are together again. Seeing as it’s a Friday, I’m going to go with back together though. Last I heard they were trying to put together a second album, although it’s been quiet again for a while, so who knows where things currently stand?

The unfortunate thing about the original sudden demise of Dogs Die in Hot Cars was that they left behind a superb album that became destined to be quietly forgotten. Which is a shame as it’s full of excellent XTC-alike pop songs, something which is in short supply these days. While at the time the band never really troubled the charts (this one hit the heady heights of #32!), it isn’t that hard to imagine them in the place of The Maccabees or The Kaiser Chiefs had things gone slightly differently for them.