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 punk.

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