From Vital Weekly:

Hellothisisalex is a young electronic duo from Canada, consisting of Mark Prier and Melissa Creasey, who both share a strong love of analogue synthesizers, as well as 'pots, pans, plates, voices, guitar, melodica, saxophone and clock radio.' Not that's easy to hear all of this, but I'm sure it's somewhere in there. Hellothisisalex like their pop to be electro. The album is inspired by fires that raged in the early 20th century across the river from Hull, Quebec to Ottawa, Ontaria [sic]. This may explain just a little bit the somewhat darker tone that hoovers [sic]around in the nine tracks on this release. A somewhat somber tone on this album, which has mid-tempo electro songs, fuzzy analogue sounds coming from likewise buzzing synthesizers. Nicely executed, Hellothisisalex could have been released by Suction Records or maybe some of the older Morr Music releases. Despite their young history, Hellothisisalex managed to deliver a nice album of mildly somber tracks, without getting too gloom and doom, but inventive enough. (Frans de Waard)

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