2.24.2011 | 5:00 am

New Music: The Warm Hardies – ‘Fast and Heavy’

The Warm HardiesThe Warm Hardies’ “Fast and Heavy” is the best song about locomotives since Bob Dylan’s “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”; it is the best Death Cab song since “405″; it is a song that will fill your eyes right up as you reach to press play again and again. (It is not a Death Cab song. But it comes close enough.) The Warm Hardies are a Seattle girl-guy duo who sing with quiet, untrained passion, their harmonies brushing against each other like a cashmere cardigan against oxford cloth. “Fast and Heavy” is their first song; the band tells me a full-band version is on the way, which would be exciting if it wasn’t already completely perfect.

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  • matthew

    i love your blog(s), dave, and share unbelievably similar taste with you. but you’re being hyperbolic here. this is, well, middle-of-the-road. pretty? yes, very. but comparing it to ’405′? yikes.

  • http://www.rawkblog.net/ David Greenwald

    Hmm. E-mail me more stuff you like? If we really have unbelievably similar taste, would love to discuss.

  • anonymous

    you gotta see them live. so amazing.

  • http://www.gazzmic.com Barry Donegan

    I agree this song works great in this subdued way. Not sure it will be the same with a full band. Awesome tune, though.