WL//WH Video Premiere Hearts and Rockets
Meeting in Sydney around 2010, while playing in different bands, kindred by a common love for Ramones, Kalindy Williams (vocals, guitar and synth) and Kurt Eckardt (bass, beats and vocals), relocated to Melbourne/Naarm, began to write short, straightforward, high-energy, dancing punk songs, under the Heat Wave moniker, released through the DIY label/zine Psychic Hysteria, previously started in 2015 by Kurt himself for his solo project Astral Skulls.
Switched in 2018 into a heady dancing combination of Pop, Punk, New Wave and Post-punk of the feminist ‘Brat-Wave’ unit Hearts and Rockets, WL//WH welcomes their return to the blog with a Premiere of the Official Video. created by Kalindy Williams herself, for “The Promise”, a synth-heavy track originally released last March as a split 7″ single, co-released on It Records, with fellow Aussie speed ‘n roll crooner Cong Josie, whose latest second opus was recently reviewed by Mike.
igniting a vibrant and nostalgic high-energy rush of steady bouncy rhythms and jittery chunky bass stabs, obsessively topped by dire buzzing and flickering synth drifts, whilst bratty ecstatic vocals tease and taunt with relentless passion.
The colorful visuals by Kalindy Williams create a punk Alice in Wonderland tea party to sync with the off-kilter exuberance of the soundtrack. You might at first think you are watching a typical Alice reenactment until you notice the risque leather bondage bra and black lace gloves accessorizing the cute powder pink dress. The rainbow tinsel-strewn walls make a perfect backdrop for Hearts and Rockets as Kurt hops around in a motorcycle jacket playing bass and Kalindy searches through a wide variety of iced saccharine treats.
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