Heartbreak Club

Layered thick with obvious influences from Weezer and The Get Up Kids and late ’90s California pop-punk bands, Australia’s Heartbreak Club are producing incredibly infectious songs impressive for a debut album. Viva la mala Fortuna opens the 11-track album with a relentless drum beat and chugging guitars, while the key change into the chorus of Our Horse Is Dead keeps it memorable. The real strength of the album lies in the various instrumentation peppered throughout these pop gems – digital synth, strings, piano, cello, and violin, best displayed on the acoustic ballad Jeepers. While it all may sound overproduced, it isn’t. Sure, the band spent time making sure the ingredients in each song were just right, making for a polished debut album most bands would dream of putting out to the masses. Download the album for free at www.heartbreakclub.bandcamp.com.

Published in Volume 65, Number 17 of The Uniter (January 27, 2011)

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