Description:	CD on Hidden Shoal
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Indie Pop
	Label:	Hidden Shoal
	Price:	£10.29
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5
...according to our Phil on 30 April 2009.

I was hungry and I just ate an apple but they really dont do anything.... I'm still hungry, apples are practically a drink so I don't see how it can be classed as food. You should check out the Hotels CD though on Hidden Shoal Records though that does nothing to satiate my permanent 24 hour hunger. Where Hearts Go Broke is what I'd call quality indie music! The opener 'Hydra' is a belter which sucks you into the albums pure pop charms. Ludicrously catchy pop songs played in a sort of electro pop post-punk kind of way. There's some delightful moments on the album and it's one of best pop albums I've heard in ages. Clinton if you're reading this then check this out cos I thnk you might like it. Hey you can hear it on the website now as we're all fancy. So in a nutshell this is some popped up new wave synth pop with a jerky angular thing going on and they have been described as Joy Division on surf boards in space which I like!

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Sound clips for Where Hearts Go Broke by Hotels: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Hidden Shoal, HSR047, £10.29.

What their label says...

From the opening salvo of single ‘Hydra’ to glorious finale ‘Flight Of The Navigator’, Where Hearts Go Broke takes the listener on a thrilling musical journey through airports, streets, bars and, yes, hotels, populated with people falling in and out of love, lost in the gutter but always looking to the stars. This is the most relentlessly paced, hauntingly melodic, damn catchy pop music you’ve never heard, each song an end credit for the weary traveller or the romantic dancer; a tune you should listen to just before you die.

Throughout this addictive album, crisp, propulsive drumming and beautifully melodic bass are buoyed up by sizzling synths and chiming guitars, with Blake Madden intoning urgent, compelling vocal lines. It’s all here: the swooning nu-gaze surge of ‘Near The Desert, Near The City’; the edgy guitar clang of ‘Port Of Saints’; the gorgeous Bond-esque epic ‘The Heart The Hears Like A Bat’, with its tremolo guitar and vibraphone rippling out into the night; and the impossibly sublime ‘Café Martinique’, where the tumbling majesty of Joy Division meets fast-paced chamber pop, with one of the most blissed-out finales you’re likely to hear.


Track Listing:

   1. Hydra (Single)
   2. Near The Desert, Near The City
   3. Leilani
   4. Port Of Saints
   5. Kite Fight
   6. The Maudlin  
   7. On The Casino Floor
   8. The Heart That Hears Like A Bat
   9. Cafe Martinique
  10. Flight Of The Navigator