Disco's all the rage. 80's all the rage. Put the two together and you get something that sounds like Heartbreak, the pairing of the fabulously named Ali Renault and Argentinian Sebastian Muravchik. They both look like they've fallen straight out of East London, complete with skinny moustache, so it's no surprise they're making that italo-disco sound all the cool kids are talking about.
'Lies', their debut album, is a somewhat mixed affair. While at times, Sebastian's voice can sound epic and flamboyant, it also has something of a 'Jake Shears gone evil' tone to it, none more so as in the absurd sounding 'Robot's Got The Feeling'. 'Akin To Dancing' transports us to a seedy NY discotheque, while the pulsating Moroder beats of former single 'We're Back' pound along with high drama. This 7.30 minute epic, which sent all the hipster blogs into a frenzy back in August, is their masterpiece, with the eerie and creepily sung lyric "You have not heard it all before, cos we're back from the disco to the radio".
Close but no mirrorball - we're not entirely convinced by this album - if we wanted italo disco we'd listen to Sally Shapiro, and if we wanted creepy 80s synth pop we'd go for Cut Copy. If nothing else we can thank Heartbreak for the best song title we've heard in a long time - 'Deathly Pong of Love'. Brilliant.
Originally published in September's Attitude Magazine
Here's Little Boots' cover of the epic "We're Back".
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