now this is how to get some blog love and attention.
a few weeks ago i received a small package that had no details as to the source, the package included a small plastic box, with a unicorns-n-hearts logo on it.
when the box opened, small silver shiny hearts flew out, to reveal a small golden key, and a piece of paper advising that i was to soon receive a little piece of magic.
who ? what ? where ? when ?
nothing other than i was number 32 out of 100.
the mystery remained unanswered until yesterday, as another, much larger, parcel awaited my attention when i arrived home.
this time the package contained a solid box with a padlock.
i took a picture : here
15 minutes later after i remembered where i had put the key, i got into the magical mystery box.
so rather than me describe the contents.
i took a picture : here
as you can see, it’s stufffed with sugar rush pleasures, toys, stickers, badges, oh and the cd advising that via the myspace address the band could be called heartsrevolution.
in 7 years of ireallylovemusic i have never received anything quite like this.
so, now the people behind this budget busting adventure had my attention, what about the music ?
well you know it wasn’t that long ago that most unsolicited personally distributed cd-rs were of the guitars in a garage band type of recordings, most of which ended up unloved.
however recently, i have noticed that the tide has turned, and most of the music i now get involves cheap synths, easy to program drum machines, and makes me smile a lot more.
thankfully, the three tracks here are very much of that ilk, involving ed banger styled overdriven digital noise, lo-fi treated vocals, and several hooks from glitter heaven.
for a start, opener choose your own adventure (c.y.o.a!) is absolutely brilliant.
coming on strong like some mad team up with ninja from go! team sliced with clor styled electro’d up disco and some wonderful choppy cut-n-paste guitars for the saturday night indie rockers.
the song has radio hit stamped large and proud through the nu-rave excess.
domino cuts back on the rock element (though very delicately in the mix is a excellent guitar solo), and head for the future with an instrumental bladerunner styled ambience of synths and skinny drum machines.
as the melody of domino is so beautiful, the band decided to recycle it for prism effect, this time dropping more of those phased and stunned vocals (quoting classic david bowie in a miss kittin style) and topping off the song with an appearance by internet hero cory kennedy to make the cold hearted robotic electro production warmer and rather special despite its electro-hipster leanings.
easily the best unsigned record i have heard this year, and that’s my honest opinion before i start digging into the chemically enhanced saturated goodies currently all over the kitchen table.
more detail : here