he tale of New York electro-rock outfit Heloise & the Savoir Faire reads like an especially juicy gossip item, involving luminaries from the worlds of fine art, film, television, underground music and even music veterans. This all makes perfect sense once you've become acquainted with the charismatic pop polymath that is lead-singer Heloise Williams.

And who wouldn't want to become familiar with them after hearing the band's jubilant debut, Trash, Rats And Microphones? The album was self-produced and engineered by Andrew Schneider at Translator Studio in Brooklyn, New York; and the result became these twelve originals that marry New Wave rock, disco rhythms, and effervescent synth-pop to Heloise's succinct, idiosyncratic lyrical style.