From the futuristic world of Dallas Texas comes Binary Sunrise, the project of one K.L. Kemp. The band currently has 1384 page views on their MySpace, and tracks of the Self-Titled album can be purchased digitally.

Binary Sunrise exemplifies the difficulties in presenting an electronic album in an era when expectations for electronic music are so specific. Before listening I expect, rightly or not, that the songs will be instantly awesome like dance music, or deeply emotive like much of what I would call indie-electronica.

I was a bit standoffish with the record, but my softness for loveable electronic music prevailed over the goofy self-conscious lyrics and tonal amateurism. From the first few notes of the album I expected a narcoleptic nostalgia adventure into mediocre synth melodies. The introduction track sounds folksy and naïve with a simple arrangement of guitar, synth, and voice. The second song, "Five Minutes" jumps around with the energy of mechanical bull in the basement of a Church—which is to say, a fair amount of weird energy. Binary rhythms and wide open vocal style bring to mind Suicide's more enigmatic songs, that themselves were derivative of country and western two-step.

The third track really sucked me in as I became more comfortable with the folksy electronic sound. "Let's Get Trashed and listen to tangerine dream" is a decent lyric and part of a great song that encapsulates the band's Textronica sound. The fantastic "Receiving You" is a rough version of an 80s electronic project coving Bowie's "Ground Control to Major Tom" and Elton John's "Rocket Man" at the same time.