Bryan Deister writes, sings, composes, plays and produces a full mélange on his new Spikes Of The Heart.

After a distorted guitar beginning we get “plooky” arpeggi-ating keys and shunky drum beat under a lilting lead vocal, with bleeding overdriven keys on the opener “All That I Have.” “In Her Eyes” relies on that same sounding drum-machine beat and keys still a little too present in the mix, but Deister’s John Lennon-like vocal over the top makes this one truly feel heartfelt.