13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Kathy Bates Motel – Cool Your Heels

This should put a spring in your step on this fine Saturday morning. Its the second single from Kathy Bates Motel and its called, Cool Your Heels.

And just who is Kathy Bates Motel. We can tell you they’re from Auckland and we can ask you to read the record company blurb:

Kathy Bates Motel lead by Joe Lonie (Supergroove) release their second single ‘Cool Your Heels’, a seductive pop song about attraction. It captures the brief moment when two people “click” before fate, self-doubt, narcissism and psychological baggage intervene.

The four-pieces sophomore single is packed with widescreen guitar-driven rock of very high quality. The song starts with a driving drum beat (Milan Borich) which continues throughout, enhancing the drama, tension and intensity of the song. Jol Mulholland supplies his signature sparkling guitar pop riffs and elegant analogue keyboards. Bassist Morgan Leary trades sweet yet sour vocal lines with guitarist Joe Lonie taking the day-to-day ellipses of modern romance and elevating them to a level of art.

“Lyrically, Cool Your Heels is about spells cast and broken; sparks flying and landing nowhere; falling in love and then ultimately just falling”. – Joe 

Following on from ‘Damaged Goods‘ which was released in March 2020, ‘Cool Your Heels’ is part of a concept album chronicling the details of the rise and fall of a relationship looked at from both sides with self-effacing humour and unflinching honesty.

Kathy Bates Motel today, have released a video for ‘Cool Your Heels’, shot in one day at The Hollywood cinema in Avondale, the video is an homage to the iconic “dancing feet” title sequence from the classic 1980s movie Footloose. It features over forty sets of feet dancing in every kind of shoe imaginable, intercut with the foot-tapping of the band members as they perform the song and rock out. Quentin Tarantino would love it.

“For the KBM videos I’m taking a minimalist approach. I like to focus on one particular word or phrase from each song and make the video all about that. This time it was feet.” – Joe 

A talented director of TV and music videos, Joe produced, directed and edited the video for ‘Cool Your Heels’. It was shot by cinematographer Alex McDonald, who has worked with Joe on many videos in many different roles, including steadicam operator on ‘Gather To The Chapel’ by Liam Finn and D.O.P on ‘Can’t do What I Wanna do’ by Deja Voodoo.