Electric President
Sleep Well
2008, Morr Music
electronic, indie pop

While this album was my introduction to the band Electric President, Sleep Well is their sophomore effort and quite an impressive one at that. It’s always odd describing an album or a group as ‘indie pop’ since ‘pop’ is really just a shortened version of ‘popular,’ but Electric President is like the Moonbabies in that they can only be classified as the indie version of pop. Stylistically, the album features influences that range from the Beach Boys to the more modern versions of pop. Lyrically, the album is an emo-shoegaze dream with weird alien references and metaphors that seem to come from no where. In fact, I’d say that the album overall sounds like a lullaby to a apace alien, which makes Electric President even more enigmatic and alienating (I can has puns) than they are purported to be. A strange work, but pleasing and interesting at the same time.

“It’s Like A Heartbeat, Only It Isn’t,” “Monsters,” “We Will Walk Through Walls.”
myspace, last.fm
The Moonbabies’s War on Sound, Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion