From Vital Weekly:

With considerable long intervals, Hellothisisalex present their releases to the world. 'The Canadian Spelling Program' was released on Piehead (see Vital Weekly 321) and themselves they released 'Across The River Twin' (see Vital Weekly 461). It's still a duo of Mark Prier and Melissa Creasey and 'The Stump Act' is part of a bigger art project. For this project the [sic] drove the entire length of Yonge Street, 1896 kilometers from the shores of Lake Ontario to the US-Canada border at Rainy River. Along the way, they put up twenty rectangular wooden signs depicting tree stumps. The street has had military significance - a north-south route. The stumps refer to a penalty for public drunkenness: who was caught had to remove one. Hence the title. In just under twenty minutes, Hellothisisalex present ten tracks of what is now their trademark sound: analogue synths hiss and generate a fat sound of quirky uptempo songs, that sometimes seem to start right in the middle, rather than having a finished off beginning and end. It's a bit less sombre than 'Across The River Twin', but there are still faint traces of things melancholic, but there is at the same time also the robotic cheerfulness of electro music. The shortness is a bit of a pity, but it gives the short album also an extra strength: too much is no good either. (Frans de Waard)

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