Chicago's Impulsive Hearts are true romantics. Keepers of the flame. Romantics in a long line of Pop romantics going back to The Ronettes and The Shangri Las. Then onto The New York Dolls, Blondie, Ramones, The Pretenders and Holly & the Italians.
That's kind of where the line stops because the romance that Impulsove Hearts peddle is purest 1979. They have a leader and singer in Danielle Sines who makes her voice wobble at will like her heart is being broken. Again. They have a second album just out called Cry All The Time which is pure Springsteen dramatics, with the crucial difference that the songs are all three minute New Wave melodramas.
The ten songs here are all variations on one another, interchangeables in the way that the songs on the first three Ramones albums were. Sometimes if a thing ain't broken there's no need to fix it. Cry All The Time isn't the most original record you'll hear this month but it might be one of the most heartfelt.
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