Heptapod exists at a point where pop falls into a dark abyss, where electronica starts to become self aware, where gothic music finds its way from the dark basement venues and onto the neon glare of the clubland dance floors.

Apocalyptic disco? Doom pop? Gothtronica? Take your pick, they all work.

Imagine if Depeche Mode and Zola Jesus had a couple of strange children (how could they be anything other than strange from such a union?), or if Nine Inch Nails went into the commercial pop business.

Because for all its mercurial ways there is something wonderfully commercial about Heptapod, not as in chart hit, TV advert, mainstream radio playlist type commercial, but there is an army of movers and shakers, discerning pop pickers and tastemakers who will dig its otherness, its ability to wander down the same streets as the regular folk, to walk hand in hand with the conformists of the music industry machine but still retain their weird and beguiling musical persona.

You don’t have to try and change them, you don’t even have to try to understand them, but you do have to admire them.