Hot Club De Paris: Track By Track Album Guide

So you've had Hot Club De Paris' debut album 'Drop It Till It Pops' for just over a week now and you haven't got a clue what they're on about. Well, don't worry Gigwise reader for we've enlisted Paul Rafferty, the Moshi Moshi trio's bass player and singer, to enlighten us all with a track by track guide of the record. Read on and learn...

Welcome to the Hot Club de Paris (Can I Get A Rewind?)

I hate records where you have to skip through the opening track. We decided to have the opening song as a windback track in order to give the listener the choice as to whether they wanted to hear us being vile about sexual intercourse in close harmony. The song is about the idea of rock bands using their image to project a manifesto as to what their music should mean to the listener. I thought it'd be fun to have a song about a hair metal band's basic manifesto of getting laid as much as possible, then pissing it all away. I'd just read The Dirt by Motley Crue. When we figured out the melody we felt it didn't need any music so we kept it as an a'capella.

Shipwreck

When we first wrote this song, it was technically the hardest thing we'd ever played. It was an instrumental for a few shows until we were brave enough to tackle the singing over the top. I wrote words about a night out in Liverpool's Le Bateau club. I'd spent far too many weekends watching people fall down the stairs and sing along to songs despite not knowing the words.

Clockwork Toy

This was the last song to be written for the album. The verses describe a dormant clockwork circus that is slowly coming back to life. It's a total cack-handed metaphor about sorting your life out so that you can enjoy it. I'd always wanted a job that I liked doing and this song is about realising that it's worth having a go.

3.55am: I Think We Should Go Home

A lot of the songs on this album are either about having loads of fun with girls or not having loads of fun with girls. This one is about the latter. Some days it’s worth staying in bed, rather than getting out of the wrong side of it.

Names and Names and Names

This song is about meeting someone and thinking they're fit and them thinking that you're fit too so you ask them to be your girlfriend and then suddenly weeks later you can't even remember the first time she told you her name or the first time you held hands or even kissed on the lips. Lust can make romance so jaw-droppingly efficient.

Sometimesitsbetternottostickbitsofeachotherineachother... foreachother

This song is about the idea that sometimes it's better not to stick bits of each other in each other for each other's benefit. It's an ode to logic.