Electric Corpse is Matthew Dallas on Guitar and lead vocals, Laura Abbruzzese on Drums, Megan Marcoux on Keys, and Danielle Kain on Bass. Although the impetus for the group is appropriately sad and tragic for the bands name, [see below from another recent interview with lead singer Matthew] the growing response to their music is quite impressive.  Currently the bands self-titled EP boasts being “most-popular at #1 on the new-wave list” on bandcamp’s website.

Think “goth”…. Having heard the band’s music, it’s gorgeous, stark-yet-layered music reminiscent of Joy Division, and — considering the band members’ ages — it’s easy to assume that this was a group of young people creating an image of darkness, a gloomy facade to surround themselves with (as so many young people do) to give themselves a cool air of gloom and nihilism.

Almost every song in the Electric Corpse arsenal is about Galanek’s girlfriend of five years who died. “Two are about four years old, and I like them so I carried them over from my previous band,” he says. “They’re all about the same subject.”

Galanek, the songwriter of the band, has been through true tragedy, the sort of experience that no person in their 20s should have to go through. Naturally, that experience had a huge impact on his life; when he sits down to write songs about what affects him the most, those are the feelings that pour forth. So the romantic tragedy, the beautiful gothic sound of Electric Corpse, is very, very real. It’s authentic, it’s honest and it’s natural and, though what happened to Galanek and the people surrounding him is horrible, it is refreshing to hear new dark music that isn’t cynically constructed.”

-VIA Electric Corpse’s dark shadows, Metro Times article, Brett Callwood