The House That Dirt Built

{{Infobox album

| name = The House That Dirt Built

| type = studio

| artist = The Heavy

| cover = The_House_That_Dirt_Built.jpg

| alt =

| released = 5 October 2009

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = {{ubl|Toybox Studios {{small|(Bristol)}}|State of the Ark Studios {{small|(Richmond)}}{{cite AV media notes|title=The House That Dirt Built|others=The Heavy|year=2009|type=album liner notes|publisher=Counter Records}}}}

| genre = {{flatlist|

}}

| length = 38:06

| label = Counter

| producer = Jim Abbiss

| prev_title = Great Vengeance and Furious Fire

| prev_year = 2007

| next_title = How You Like Me Now?

| next_year = 2010

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1639555/review|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

|rev2 = Contact Music

|rev2score = {{Rating|7|10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/new/home.nsf/albumreview/the-heavy-the-house-that-dirt-builtx29x10x09|title=The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built Album Review|date=29 October 2009|publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017}}

|rev3 = PopMatters

|rev3score = {{Rating|7|10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/120271-the-heavy-the-house-that-dirt-built/|title=The Heavy: The House That Dirt Built|publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017}}

}}

The House That Dirt Built is the second studio album by English rock band The Heavy. It was released on 5 October 2009. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme This Is the House That Jack Built. Vocalist Kelvin Swaby 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=20251|title=Sixteen|work=Songfacts.com|accessdate=2010-11-06}}

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.{{YouTube|aWrO_7YKpEA}}{{YouTube|zWL0SvZFGCM}}{{YouTube|gnQyFh9x77M|Longmire Season 2 trailer}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gn8_137btc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/6gn8_137btc |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=Short Change Hero - The Heavy - Strike Back Theme - Lyrics/Tradução|last=TutuIdiotaI|date=11 October 2011|publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3337593/|title=The Heavy|website=IMDb |publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tunefind.com/show/suits/season-2/13493|title=Music from Suits S2E16|publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/trailer/official-all-mark-wahlberg-trailers-to-feature-how-you-like-me-now.php|title=Official: All Mark Wahlberg trailers to feature 'How You Like Me Now' - Movie Trailer - TheShiznit.co.uk|publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017}}{{YouTube|oBZvcxC38CQ}}{{cite web|url=http://www.justisntmusic.com/news/030713-the-heavy-how-you-like-me-now-in-turbo-trailer/|title=Just Isn't Music – 03/07/13 The Heavy 'How You Like Me Now?' in Turbo trailer|publisher=|accessdate=25 February 2017}}