An Electric Heart Album Review

Once an aspiring Punk band, Napier’s An Electric Heart was born from the scarcity of drummers, though I see little evidence of any Punk origins, save for the power chords of a digitized guitar and the Punk vocal aesthetic that sporadically make an appearance throughout their eponymous debut full length.

The music is generally electronic and especially poppy, kind of Pet Shop Boys and The Cure, that eighties vibe. Ballads and Electro Beats.

The exception being the concluding track, the titular An Electric Heart; an acoustic ballad that, though incongruous to the preceding tracks, is the soothing calm you need after this digital storm of an album.

The Resistance was the standout track for me. The track opens like so many tracks I loved from my Trance Techno, reach-for-the-lasers heyday before devolving into a Late Eighties, Nine Inch Nails Head Like A Hole.

You can find the An Electric Heart LP as well as their back catalogue of EPs for download, purchase or stream on the An Electric Heart Bandcamp (http://anelectricheart.bandcamp.com/) or their official website (http://anelectricheart.com/).