That's certainly one way to create a groove, and "Long Way to Go" recalls the wing of new wave that's less interested in synthesized smoothness (whether warm or cold) than in off-kilter shards of sound glued together to resemble pop music.
We have always had huge day-to-day and year-to-year variations in our weather, and we always will do, and a couple ofcold winters are no more evidence that climate change has stopped than a single summer heat-wave proves that global warming is happening.