Being a first-time-listener-longtime-caller of Brute Heart, I tried to temper my expectations, and turns out I didn’t need to. Playing bass-drums-guitar in this day and age is a feat in itself; to do so with the originality and fluidity of this fledgling act is that much more convincing. It’s almost a minimal, rhythmic, Stereolab-esque feel laced with more spiky in-D elements, a la Dischord’s lovely Evens, and wrapped in a sheath of echo. At first I rued the existence of a remix of “Wildfire” on the flip, as that normally doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, but this re-imagining works on the strength of its alternate phrasing (not to mention the allure of the original product). It might have even benefited BH to render the redux the original product; it seems much more limber this way, despite the extra layer of gauze. Definitely will be keeping my eye peeled for more from this group.
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