THE HONG KONG
Slow Motion Gets Around

Catalogue number: MP01
Format: Digital download
Release date: November 13, 2007
UPC: 859700356838

11 songs: Tongue Tied • Galaxies • Dreams • ROTA • Not Getting Better • Long Distance • Colored Noises • Pink Piano • Disaster • No Imagination • Videos

The rebels have stormed and seized the airport. Rick Rubin has been made copilot at Columbia. Whirlybirds are landing on the embassy roof, making a last ditch effort to get our people out. Radiohead lets the fans decide how much their new album is worth. It's happening as you read this, and what was once the distant sound of shells exploding and the violet streak of tracer bullets is now the up close sound of hip-hop samplers, extroverted guitars, fuzz bass, dream-girl vocals, layered flutes, and metronomic drums.

And amidst all the flux, The Hong Kong comes clean with a new album of it's own. Slow Motion Gets Around is The Hong Kong's return to the mono-platter magic of it's 2003 release Rock the Faces. Who better to produce their follow-up then Cars front-man Ric Ocasek (Weezer, Bad Brains). His crunching guitar production is evidenced here on tracks like "Dreams" and "No Imagination", while you can sense his rhythmic presence on the slow lizard-crawl of "ROTA". Other notable tracks are the soaring, instant classic "Not Getting Better", and the raw, immediate punk of "Pink Piano".

To accompany this release, The Hong Kong have enlisted film maker Sera Rogacki and Luna front-man Dean Wareham to help with a Bonnie and Clyde themed video for the album's opening track, "Tongue-Tied". The video has become a YouTube favorite, already receiving well over 100,000 views.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW8yxOOgc2MGU5U2spHI_4

All 11 tracks from Slow Motion Gets Around will be available at iTunes US & UK/EU, plus Other Music, Rhapsody, Napster and eMusic on November 13th.