Locked and Loaded Hot Fuzz Soundtrack Album Features Classic BritRock From XTC, The Troggs, Adam Ant, and The Kinks - Plus New Songs From Modern Rockers The Fratellis and Jon Spencer

NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Cherrytree/ Interscope Records) - The biggest smash of the year in the U.K. (where it had the sixth-biggest opening of all time for a comedy), Hot Fuzz is the action-packed new comedy from the makers of the hit movie Shaun of the Dead. Hot Fuzz opens in theaters across the U.S. on April 20, 2007, from Rogue Pictures. Now, the arresting Hot Fuzz soundtrack brings together XTC, The Troggs, The Fratellis, Adam Ant, the Eels, and plenty of surprises. From classic BritRock to Modern Rock, from the faves to the arcane, from the '60s to the '00s, Hot Fuzz (Cherrytree/Interscope Records), to be released April 17, 2007, has its irreverent tongue in its musical cheek.

Among the album's previously unreleased recordings is a supercharged remake by The Fratellis of the 1973 T. Rex track "Solid Gold Easy Action." The witty indie rockers from Glasgow also contribute "Baby Fratelli" from their 2006 Costello Music disc. "Chelsea Dagger," from that critically acclaimed album, is heard in the trailer to Hot Fuzz, which started showing this past winter.

Other new tracks on Hot Fuzz are "Here Come The Fuzz" from Jon Spencer & The Elegant Too, and music from film composer David Arnold, best known for his recent James Bond film scores. Arnold's spectacularly over-the-top 23-minute "The Hot Fuzz Suite" is an epic masterpiece of musical cliches, performed with a sly grin. While a couple of songs on the Hot Fuzz soundtrack album were hits in both the U.K. and the U.S. - "Goody Two Shoes" from the Adam Ant of the early '80s and the brilliantly demonic late '60s "Fire" from the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown - others were widely hailed in the U.K. but never conquered the charts here. The Kinks' "The Village Green Preservation Society" (1968), Cozy Powell's "Dance With The Devil" (1973), and The Troggs' notoriously salacious "I Can't Control Myself" (1966) are now storming America on Hot Fuzz. Even rarer in the U.S. is the'70s garage glam instrumental "Slippery Rock 70's" from pop oddballs Stavely Makepeace.

Also on the docket are pioneering smart rockers XTC with 1980's "Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)," Supergrass with 1995's "Caught By The Fuzz," and L.A. band Eels with 2001's "Souljacker Part 1."

Written by Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz reteams Shaun of the Dead stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost alongside a killer cast. Get in on the action at https://www.jointhefuzz.com.

A Rogue Pictures presentation in association with StudioCanal of a Working Title production in association with Big Talk Productions, Hot Fuzz is executive-produced by Natascha Wharton. The producers are Nira Park, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.