Posted September 17, 200816 yr HEARTSREVOLUTION 'Switchblade' Switchblade EP Iheartcomix // Kitsuné Winter 2008 http://www.missingtoof.com/images/blg/aug07/hearts_revolution.jpg HEARTSREVOLUTION Synopsis If you like Crystal Castles but find their 8-bit punk-disco hard to swallow, then try Hearts Revolution, yet another duo – two really is the new black - who are offering a sort of accessible (these things being relative) version of that extreme electro-terrorist digital hardcore sound. In a parallel universe, their songs, a series of yelps over DIY shards of rhythm with chanted choruses and slim, size-zero melodies, would all be smash hits. Hearts Revolution, who have been touring as support to the New Band of the Day-sanctioned Midnight Juggernauts, call themselves thrash-metal electronicists and boy/grrrl revolutionaries, with echoes in the latter phrase of the likes of Huggy Bear from the early-90s riot grrrl era. In fact, they're like Huggy Bear plugged into the National Grid. They've even remixed the Bear's best-known song, Her Jazz, with its immortal kiss-off to the straight world, "This is happening without your permission". They've got songs that teeter on that fine line between brutal and beautiful, songs about laser beams and wolves and libertines, with titles like Ultraviolence and Switchblade, which sound like they've been lifted from one of Bobby Gillespie's doodle-pads. They've even got a genuinely pretty ballad called Digital Suicide with shades of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream that references something called "sonic dreams" and contains a deeply old-fashioned demand to "stop the world, I want to get off". And yet they're so fashionable and of-the-moment that Hearts Revolution are currently making people in Hoxton weep tears of joy. They've got all the right global connections (New York, Tokyo, LA, Paris), if they were any better looking it would be illegal, oh, and they "redrawing the lines between art and commerce". Just like that. Roughly translated, this means they're handling the packaging and marketing, the visual aspect of what they do, all by themselves, under the rubric, Choose Your Own Adventure. Live, artist and fashion designer Kate Moross adds fluoro images and projections, but they don't play regular gigs, no sir, that would be so 20th century. No, instead they've got their own branded ice-cream truck, a pink machine called Hearts Challenger that is known to pull up at parties, art openings and music events, and from the back of which they spontaneously jam (a rockist term meaning "plug in and play"). They also sell sweets and Japanese toys from the van as a way of enhancing the idea of Hearts Revolution as a self-contained dream world. But they're not nihilists or angry angst-merchants. "We do what we want, support who we love," they declare, quaintly. "How? We are powered by love." Cute. //////////////////////// Switchblade EP http://this.bigstereo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/heartsrev-ep-cover-600pix-1-450x450.jpg 01 Switchblade 02 Wolves + Libertines 03 Dance Til Dawn 04 Digital Suicide 05 Take It Or Leave It Switchblade Video I0anFLFWoGw //////////////////////// They may be a bit style-over-substance but I still love them. Some folk may remember the EP got a release on 10" through art-vinyl chic lady Kate Meross and her Isomorph record label. Well Iheartcomix // Kitsuné have signed the band and they'll be releasing a slightly rejigged version of the EP. 'Ultraviolence' leaves and in come two new tracks 'Dance Til Dawn' and 'Take It Or Leave It', the latter is supposedly one of their best songs yet. I anticipate this. They be touring these lands properly over the next 2-3 months.
September 17, 200816 yr I never knew Iheartcomix is/has a record label. :lol: Anyway the original is fantastic so I cannot wait. :o
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