Dogs Die in Hot Cars

Dogs Die in Hot Cars came out of St Andrews in Fife, a five-piece with Craig Macintosh and Gary Smith both singing and playing guitar, Ruth Quigley singing and working the keyboards, Lee Worrall on bass and glockenspiel, and Laurence Davey on drums and percussion. That glockenspiel tells you a lot: this was bright, nervy, twitchy indie rock, all chiming guitars and herky-jerky rhythms, with enough brainy new wave in its blood to sound both clever and sweet.

Please Describe Yourself, their album on V2 Records in 2004, is where "I Love You Cause I Have To" and "Godhopping" come from, songs that bounce and fidget like they've had too much coffee and are dying to tell you about it. The band's run lasted from 1997 to 2006.

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