Track Listing
1. Mona Lisa
2. Swinging Man
3. Silver Manhattan
4. Arrested
5. Since You're in Love
6. Going Out West
7. Scars of Love
8. New World Order
9. About You
10. Block Island
11. Basement Home
12. Hotel Columbia
13. Indian Summer
14. God's Lonely People
| Details | | Producer: | Jesse Malin | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Jesse Malin (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Doug Pettibone (electric guitar, pedal steel guitar); Ryan Adams (electric guitar, synthesizer, background vocals); Jody Porter, Richard Fortus, Justin Lomery, Ricky Mahler, Miles Okazaki (electric guitar); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Joe McGinty (piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ, keyboards); Christine Smith (piano, keyboards, background vocals); Rob Clores (piano, keyboards); Howie Pyro (bass guitar, sound effects); Johnny Pisano (bass guitar); Paul Garisto (drums, percussion, background vocals); Johnny T. (percussion); David Poe, Pete Yorn, Tommy Stinson, Matthew Caw (background vocals).
Recording information: Stratosphere, New York, NY (2004).
Born in the New York City borough of Queens and a longtime resident of the East Village, former D Generation frontman Jesse Malin has quietly slipped into the role of Big Apple bard. Starting with his 2002 solo debut, THE FINE ART OF SELF-DESTRUCTION, Malin cast himself as a latter-day Lou Reed. Two years on, follow-up THE HEAT features guest appearances by Ryan Adams, ex-Replacement Tommy Stinson, Pete Yorn, and Fountains of Wayne's Jody Porter. However, these guests don't distract from Malin or his tunes, as this punk-loving singer/songwriter's compositional prowess more than carries the record. Having written most of this album on the road, Malin uses the perspective of an outsider looking in to inform this batch of Manhattan-centric songs. The Byrds-flavored "Mona Lisa" finds cross-dressers and dope-dealers scrambling to survive in post-9/11 New York, while the losing gamblers and fame-starved teens of the John Lennon-influenced "God's Lonely People" find failure on the Left Coast. With THE HEAT, Jesse Malin has cemented his place in the NYC rock pantheon.
Editorial Reviews
[I]t's hard to ignore that everything Malin touches is resplendent.
Magnet
Ranked #31 in Uncut's Best New Albums of 2004 - Great tunes wrapped in dense guitars and delivered with tremendous passion, energy and righteous anger.
Uncut
5 stars out of 5 - THE HEAT is all genuine passion, brimming with energy, anger and great tunes sandwiched between the dense guitars.
Uncut
3 stars out of 5 - Perpetually mysterious and grieving, THE HEAT walks a thin line between epic classicism and intimate sorrow...
Mojo
4 stars out of 5 - THE HEAT is liberation time: sharply drawn slices of naked-city life, rich in scarred guitars and made vivid and personal by Malin's cutting East Village-barfly yowl.
Rolling Stone
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