No one seems to be able to adequately describe Viva Voce, aka Kevin and Anita Robinson from Portland, Oregon. The Heat Can Melt Your Brain is apparently all over the map, and occasionally the duo will change up gears multiple times within a single song. This, of course, will garner them comparisons to the Fiery Furnaces. But Lovers, Lead The Way! also got Viva Voce comparisons to Mates Of State, who seem about as far away from the Fiery Furnaces as you can get without, say, lapsing into death metal territory.

None of that is really all that important; what is important is that the band can not only play a whole collage of styles, but they can do it with an impressive amount of ability in a live setting. “Alive With Pleasure” works amazingly well live, especially considering the cooing vocals over most of the song—Anita can actually project in concert. But perhaps the coolest thing about this track live is that Anita also pulls out the double-necked guitar for it. Awesome.