Pitchfork

If ice cream be the food of love, play on. Boy-girl duo Hearts Revolution (pictured) made their entrance into the music scene with their buzzed-about Hearts Challenger ice cream truck, showing near hipster-friendly hotspots in Los Angeles and New York. On their just released, glow-in-the-dark split 7" with Crystal Castles, Hearts Revolution spout cheeky anti-war slogans over buzzy, distorted synths; if they were an ice cream flavor, they'd be pralines and electropunk. "C.Y.O.A." stands for "choose your own adventure": If you want to hear a clever "Revolution" reference, listen to their track now. If you want to learn what's on the flip, you're, um, reading the wrong paragraph.

Crystal Castles' "Excuse Me" is more of the fucked-up 8-bit chaos that earned the Toronto duo Rising status here on Forkcast. The group's singer, Alice, yelps confrontational lyrics amid videogame bleeps, rapid metronomic beats, and icy eight-note bass. It's aggressive yet playful, using some of the tools of dance music to evoke a clattery basement-punk racket. I'm pretty sure Alice throws in the line, "They wanna play with my placenta," but we'll have to double-check. Good thing these two don't sell ice cream.