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TRACK: Soul Transplant.

WHO: Anglo-Argentinian dancefloor menaces Heartbreak.

WHAT: They call it Metalo – a mix of metal and old-school Italo disco.

HYPE: “How the '80s would sound today if the '90s hadn't got in the way." - Vice.

WE SAY: Kinda like some hands-across the ocean gesture, not unlike Bono staging Whale Aid in Tokyo, Heartbreak have proved that a love of shimmering disco balls and tinkly cheap synth sounds can overcome any petty international squabbles, be it Falklands ’82, Maradona ’86 or Beckham ’98.

The band formed during a trip to South America by Brit band member Ali Renault, whereupon he met charismatic Buenes Aires-sprouted frontman Sebastian Muravchik. the latter realised that what they have in corned beef production they lack in ace music, and so he upped sticks and moved to London.

Fusing disco and metal may not be an instant click in most eyes, but the sense of heightened camp and overblown pomp in both genres is a logical collision, especially in these post-Scissor Sisters times, as we grow weary of men with guitars acting all gritty and real, and instead demand escapist ridiculousness and artifice.

A festival of narky, excessively melodic, high-drama Europop, Soul Transplant builds from a foundation of dark metal chords that then makes friends with a drum machine track that came out of a Frosties packet some time in the early Eighties. Muravchik’s latin roots lend an air of curious displacement to his soaring, yearning vocals, which suggest he could at any second cause some disco destruction once he gets over a troubling bout of constipation. It’s not dissimilar to the story about Can’s Japanese singer Damo Suzuki delivering the words to Mary Mary Quite Contrary like it was of biblical importance, simply as he didn’t actually know what he was singing.

By all accounts their live shows promise a similar level of theatrics, being apparently a stage-invading experience of biblical proportions. It’d have to be really, you can’t be as arch as this and then do an acoustic set on Jool Holland. That just won’t be right. Even stage invasions seem a bit obvious. Something like that guy from WASP's rocket launching codpiece sets the level we want here.

IF YOU ONLY NEED TO KNOW ONE THING: The pair recently added a load of peachy plastic synth stabs and polyester beats to fellow-eightiesphiles Neon Neon’s I Lust U.

WHERE CAN I GET MY HANDS ON IT: Soul Transplant is taken from Heartbreak’s album Lies, which is released on September 22 on Lex Records.

FIND MORE: www.myspace.com/heartbreak1

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