Heart On by Eagles of Death Metal

Heart On, the third Eagles of Death Metal album, hit the racks on Downtown Records on October 28, 2008, as the follow-up to Death by Sexy, and the joke in the band's name still holds: there's no death metal anywhere near it. The Palm Desert partnership of Jesse Hughes, on lead vocals and guitar, and Josh Homme, who produced and chips in on drums, bass, guitar and backing vocals, plays it for maximum strut, all fuzzed-up boogie riffs, hip-shaking beats and Hughes hamming it up like a lounge lizard in a leather jacket.

Hughes sold the thing in suitably ridiculous terms, as a top-secret sonic missile aimed squarely at the ladies. "Anything 'cept the Truth" is the finished take of "Ask Me Why", an early version that leaked after someone close to the band had a MySpace account hacked. "Wannabe in LA" led the way as the first single, its Liam Lynch video rendering Hughes in pin art, a nod to Nine Inch Nails' "Only".

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