New London band Backseat Heartbeats‘ brooding rock-punk sound is like heroin for the analytical diary-writer in me. Greedily going through the MySpace menu, I find Death Pleasures fast and murmurous, like a subway ride in an oxygen chamber, Love Stains inexplicably reminiscent of The Kills even though it sounds nothing like them, and 23 so mistily melancholic and journey-like that it makes me think of racing up a motorway, the sun setting and the destination irrelevant.
Catch them at Proud Camden on Tuesday 27 July alongside the also-marvellous Creatures of Love.
Backseat Heartbeats – Our Last Waltz (mp3)
NB: Backstreet Heartbeats have subsequently changed their name to Hold Kiss Kill