We Break our Own Hearts

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
If early 80s electro-pop could rise from the dead, put on a sexier outfit, strip down the overly solicitous pop façade and adopt an edgier persona the result would be Myrtle beach based five piece outfit called Something about Vampires of Sluts. Mining all the snyth powered energy of bands like The Cure, Heaven 17, Joy Division and Berlin, Something About Vampires and Sluts is not afraid to mangle their protégé’s kinetic pop templates with a darker, updated musings, twisting the soaring emotionality of a fly wheel crescendo into a newly minted back drop into a 21st bathhouse beat. Moving between hyper and sullen, sweet and sick, their debut album We break our own Hearts blends caustic lyricism with sometimes agonizing, sometimes smoldering and otherwise frantic melodies, reaching back into the void of pop culture oddities to unearth a new, brooding and resonant music that is sure to leave a distinctive mark on the recent 80s revivalism.

Featuring a line-up of new comers including Colin Krane on bass, Beth Graham on Keyboards, Michael Wood on Vocals, Brian Mckenzie on Guitar and Chris Kotsopolous on keyboards, the quintet has been honing both a wild stage show and a broad song writing palette that is all in evidence on the album. Androgynous Theme Song is a combination call and response, hard rocking, and distorted shout out to sexual ambiguity and gender role reversal. Hyosung drives powerful rhythmic guitars through a hypnotic layer of retro-keys into a two-part deconstruction of love and lust. Burning Bridges artfully mashes punk undertones with tense strings layers into a pulsating expression of misplaced anger and unresolved catharsis.

With an impressive range of instrumentation and rhythm, powerful vocals and subtly twisted lyrics, We Break Our Own Hearts is a powerfully updated mix of the electric energy of 80s constructs mixed with the unnerving energy of post-pop

We Break our Own Hearts, Music, Something About Vampires and Sluts, Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop

Average customer rating:

teenage Goths and fans of early Cure will probably love this

We Break our Own Hearts
Something About Vampires and Sluts
Manufacturer: VMS Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00064YWYU
Release Date: 2004-10-05

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Meant to Be
Rain
Alone
Hysung
Androgynous Theme Song
Wrong key
Panda Dances
Bruning Bridges
Shoe In
Jet Black

Album Description

If early 80s electro-pop could rise from the dead, put on a sexier outfit, strip down the overly solicitous pop façade and adopt an edgier persona the result would be Myrtle beach based five piece outfit called Something about Vampires of Sluts. Mining all the snyth powered energy of bands like The Cure, Heaven 17, Joy Division and Berlin, Something About Vampires and Sluts is not afraid to mangle their protégé's kinetic pop templates with a darker, updated musings, twisting the soaring emotionality of a fly wheel crescendo into a newly minted back drop into a 21st bathhouse beat. Moving between hyper and sullen, sweet and sick, their debut album We break our own Hearts blends caustic lyricism with sometimes agonizing, sometimes smoldering and otherwise frantic melodies, reaching back into the void of pop culture oddities to unearth a new, brooding and resonant music that is sure to leave a distinctive mark on the recent 80s revivalism.

Featuring a line-up of new comers including Colin Krane on bass, Beth Graham on Keyboards, Michael Wood on Vocals, Brian Mckenzie on Guitar and Chris Kotsopolous on keyboards, the quintet has been honing both a wild stage show and a broad song writing palette that is all in evidence on the album. Androgynous Theme Song is a combination call and response, hard rocking, and distorted shout out to sexual ambiguity and gender role reversal. Hyosung drives powerful rhythmic guitars through a hypnotic layer of retro-keys into a two-part deconstruction of love and lust. Burning Bridges artfully mashes punk undertones with tense strings layers into a pulsating expression of misplaced anger and unresolved catharsis.

With an impressive range of instrumentation and rhythm, powerful vocals and subtly twisted lyrics, We Break Our Own Hearts is a powerfully updated mix of the electric energy of 80s constructs mixed with the unnerving energy of post-pop

Customer Reviews:

teenage Goths and fans of early Cure will probably love this.......2005-10-14

I bought this album, but didn't like it. It's a good album, and well produced. The band is obviously talented, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. If you like your music to have a hint of fun, this is probably not the album for you. If you like your music to be a backdrop for teenage angst of the darker kind, and maybe a little gender confusion, then I reckon that you will probably love this album. Definitely fans of early 80s Cure will love it. The male vocalist sounds heavily influenced by Robert Smith. As well as sounding like The Cure, some of it sounds original to me. It's arty, but sometimes noisy. The keyboards are kind of interesting and melodic, some of the guitar stuff is abrasive. There is a fairly full-on punk song with keyboards, but most of it is synth pop or atmospheric rock. If you're over 28, I suspect you'll find it pretentious, humourless and self-indulgent. If you're a teenage Goth, it will probably speak to you and you'll probably love it.

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