You Say Party! We Say Die!: ‘There Is XXXX (Within My Heart)’

I love to put on my dance-punk outfit You Say Party! We Say Die!. It’s a five-piece Canadian outfit (Abbotsford, BC, specifically ) & oh so fashionable.

You Say Party! We Say Die!, or YSP! WSD! formed from a bicycle gang in ‘03. A motley crew forced to stay indoors in cold Canadian winters channeled their energy into instruments & a good thing was born. Two years later a proper LP, ‘Hit the Floor!’ was released. They got my attention by sheer clout of being opener for The Blood Brothers & Pretty Girls Make Graves that same year. ‘Hit the Floor’ begins with ‘[Overture]‘, ‘Cold Hands Hot Bodies’: I was sold.

Their second studio album, 2007’s ‘Lose All Time’ & 2008’s remix album ‘Remik’s Cube’ didn’t disappoint either—even featuring ‘Toof cultivated artist, RAC. Another favorite: An upbeat remix by S-2 with a classic drum’n'bass sensibility.

Now for the current: Their third studio album ‘XXXX’ was released under the care of producer Howard Redekopp (producer of Tegan and Sara & The New Pornographers) on Paper Bag Records last September ( I know that’s old news in the album-a-minute era, but hold up a minute!). The opening track is a sweet serenade that drops into a volumetric opus.

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MP3: You Say Party! We Say Die! – There Is XXXX (Within My Heart) (2009)
[ 8mb | 239kbps vbr | 4:39 | Genre: Indie ]

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MP3: You Say Party! We Say Die! – Cold Hands! Hot Bodies! (2005)
[ 6mb | 263kbps vbr | 2:56 | Genre: Indie ]

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MP3: You Say Party! We Say Die! – Monster (RAC Remix) (2008)
[ 9mb | 320kbps cbr | 4:00 | Genre: Indie | BPM: 147 ]

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MP3: You Say Party! We Say Die! – Downtown Mayors Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule! (S-2 Beatdown Mayors Mix) (2008)
[ 8mb | 320kbps cbr | 3:31 | Genre: Breakbeat | BPM: 92 ]

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