{"id":651,"date":"2007-07-18T09:46:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T08:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2007-07-18T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T08:47:18","slug":"hearts-revolutions-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"heartsrevolutions &#8211; ep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>now this is how to get some blog love and  attention.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a few weeks ago i received a small package that had  no details as to the source,&nbsp;the package&nbsp;included a small plastic box,  with a unicorns-n-hearts logo on it. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>who ? what ? where ? when ? <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>nothing other than i was number 32 out of 100.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the mystery remained unanswered&nbsp;until  yesterday, <\/FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>as another, much larger, parcel  awaited my attention when i arrived home. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this time the package contained a solid box with a  padlock.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>i took a picture<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/pics\/box1.jpg\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>15 minutes later after i remembered where i had put  the key, i got into the magical mystery box.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so rather than me describe the contents.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>i took a picture<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/pics\/box2.jpg\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as you can see, it&#8217;s stufffed with sugar rush  pleasures, toys, stickers, badges, oh and the cd advising that via the myspace  address the band could be called <STRONG>heartsrevolution.<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in 7 years of <EM>ireallylovemusic <\/EM>i have  never received anything quite like this. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>so, now the people behind this budget busting  adventure had my attention, what about the music ?<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>well you know it wasn&#8217;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. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thankfully, the three tracks here are very much of  that ilk, <\/FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>involving <EM>ed banger<\/EM>  styled&nbsp;overdriven digital noise, lo-fi&nbsp;treated vocals,  and&nbsp;several hooks from glitter heaven.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for a start, opener <EM>choose your own adventure  (c.y.o.a!) <\/EM>is absolutely brilliant. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>coming on strong like some mad team up with  <EM>ninja <\/EM>from <STRONG>go! team<\/STRONG> sliced with <STRONG>clor<\/STRONG>  styled electro&#8217;d up disco and some wonderful choppy cut-n-paste guitars for the  saturday night indie rockers. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the song has radio hit stamped large and proud  through the nu-rave excess. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>domino<\/EM> 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 <EM>bladerunner<\/EM> styled ambience of synths and  skinny drum machines.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as the melody of <EM>domino <\/EM>is so beautiful,  the band decided to recycle it for <EM>prism effect,&nbsp;<\/EM>this time  dropping&nbsp;more of those phased and stunned vocals (quoting classic  <STRONG>david bowie <\/STRONG>in a <STRONG>miss kittin<\/STRONG>  style<STRONG>)<\/STRONG>&nbsp;and topping off the song with an appearance by  internet hero&nbsp;<EM><A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cory_Kennedy\">cory  kennedy<\/A> <\/EM>to make the cold hearted robotic electro production warmer and  rather special despite its electro-hipster leanings.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>easily the best unsigned record i have heard this  year, and <\/FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>that&#8217;s my honest opinion before i start  digging into the&nbsp;chemically enhanced&nbsp;saturated goodies&nbsp;currently  all over the kitchen table.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/heartsrevolution\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,&nbsp;the package&nbsp;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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singles-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}