Automatic Lovers Tour with Heartbreak & Little Boots
ICA
21st November
Tonight the ICA showcases two of the most promising electro pop acts of this year. First up are the Argentinean/Anglo outfit Heartbreak. There music has been described as “Metalo” which could possibly be the worst genre name since “shroomidelica”. But for their sake please ignore that title. By taking the sheen of Italian disco and mixing it with darker elements, Heartbreak have created a sound that is currently getting certain secions dance scene hot under the collar. Heartbreak’s intense music is complimented perfectly by frontman Sebastian Muravchik. His dominating stage presence gives the band a hypnotic quality, perfectly combined constant flash of strobes. While certain sections of the audience may have found this jarring, you get the impression that’s exactly the kind of response Heartbreak wish to inspire. Experimental without being pretentious, Heartbreak certainly remaining intriguing.
Next up was Little Boots. It’s fair to say that things are going pretty well for the diminutive star at the moment. Currently finding her self the pop star du jour of several blogs and working with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard. With such a monumental amount of hype to deliver you’d be forgiven in presuming the former Death Disco singer may fall flat. However Little Boots take’s all this in her, predictably small, stride. At this point the now rammed ICA was enraptured by Little Boots and her set of irresistible electro pop gems didn’t fail to live up to the hype. Recent single ‘Stuck On Repeat’ is a definite highlight, the Moroder-esque melody seems to still be engrained in my ears.
The sounds of Italo Disco seem to have sprung up in a number of London clubs recently and tonight’s artists hint that the sound may just be about to explode in a big way. If the music can keep to this standard, that’ll be fine with me.
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