Don't Try This At Home

RESTOCK. Last year, NY Press called Laptop "the best band in NYC". Next year, critics won't just be talking about New York. With its break-though third album Don't Try This At Home, the 80's-inspired, cinematic Laptop is finally poised for the world-wide recognition it's had coming. Jesse Hartman is the main circuit attached to the motherboard that is Laptop, a project created by Hartman to update and modernize the beloved music of his early 80's childhood. Boldly wearing his heroes on his sleeve, Hartman is creating a new icon for the masses. Picture the Thin White Duke's mind seeing the world through transformer eyes with Woody Allen's wit. Picture "Leonard Cohen remixed by Devo", as NME once put it. Hartman is the "ghost in the machine", a modern-day ironicist behind an electrock curtain.