The House That Dirt Built

The House That Dirt Built
Studio album by The Heavy
Released 13 October 2009
Genre Indie rock, garage rock, blues rock, neo soul
Length 38:06
Label Counter
Producer Jim Abbiss
The Heavy chronology
Great Vengeance and Furious Fire
(2007)		 The House That Dirt Built
(2009)		 How You Like Me Now?
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Contact Music[2]
PopMatters[3]

The House That Dirt Built is the second studio album by The Heavy. It was released on 13 October 2009. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme This Is the House That Jack Built. Vocalist Kevin Swalby explained in an interview with Songfacts that the song "Sixteen" was inspired by a time when he was working a lot as a DJ and he would see 16-year-old kids sneaking into clubs.[4]

The album's songs were used for several video games and films; "Short Change Hero" was featured in the promo for the first season of Haven, the 2010 movie Faster, the trailer for the 2011 video game Batman: Arkham City, later opened the 2012 video game Borderlands 2, and the promo for Season 2 of Longmire.[5][6][7] It is also the opening theme of the Sky1 television series Strike Back and was included in the 2011 racing video game Driver: San Francisco (along with two other songs from the band) as well as the Season 2 finale of Suits.[8][9][10] The song "How You Like Me Now?" was featured at the beginning and end of the 2010 film The Fighter, in the Season 3 finale of Suits, in the trailer for the 2012 film Ted, during the closing credits for Horrible Bosses, the closing credits for Borderlands 2, and then again in a TV spot for the 2013 animated film, Turbo.[11][12][13]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "The House That Dirt Built"   0:19
2. "Oh No! Not You Again!!"   1:54
3. "How You Like Me Now?"   3:38
4. "Sixteen"   3:02
5. "Short Change Hero"   5:22
6. "No Time"   4:31
7. "Long Way from Home"   3:19
8. "Cause for Alarm"   4:44
9. "Love Like That"   2:39
10. "What You Want Me to Do?"   3:23
11. "Stuck"   5:27

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Contact Music review
  3. ↑ PopMatters review
  4. ↑ "Sixteen". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  5. ↑ Video on YouTube
  6. ↑ Video on YouTube
  7. ↑ Longmire Season 2 trailer on YouTube
  8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gn8_137btc
  9. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3337593/
  10. ↑ http://www.tunefind.com/show/suits/season-2/13493
  11. ↑ http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/trailer/official-all-mark-wahlberg-trailers-to-feature-how-you-like-me-now.php
  12. ↑ Video on YouTube
  13. ↑ http://www.justisntmusic.com/news/030713-the-heavy-how-you-like-me-now-in-turbo-trailer/
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