"We were thinking we're keeping the good songs for later and we're putting 'Wings' out because it kind of shows the project, shows the sound," lead singer Nini Fani told Radio.com. "But I think it took on a new life once we did that."

Almost instantly after posting that song to Soundcloud, blogs like Gorilla vs. Bear, Earmilk and Pigeons and Planes were touting them as a band to watch. Needless to say, it was a pretty productive meal.

But HEARTS are a band who are always thinking about the long term. So instead of capitalizing on a little blog fame, the band — comprised of Fabi, keyboardist Ben Gebert, guitarist Garrett Ienner, bassist Derek McWilliams and drummer Jonathan Schmidt – decided to return to the studio and work on what would become their debut EP, Hemiplegia.

The band released their 4-song EP — an unmistakably '80s brand of electro-pop – in September to help tide fans over 'til their full-length debut drops, hopefully, early next year via Columbia. It is, admittedly, taking the band longer to record the album than originally anticipated. "We've spent two and a half years in the studio and spent our whole lives writing songs on the album," Fani explained. "Some songs were written five years ago, and then other songs were written two weeks ago. It's an extended process."

What you quickly learn with HAERTS — who started out as a strictly in-studio band — is that most things with them tend to be a process. That includes their inception.

Gebert and Fabi have been friends since they were 15, when they both lived in Munich, Germany. While still in their teens they started performing together as the folk duo, Nini & Ben, eventually releasing an album, 2009′s The Reasons We Try. But by the following year, they were ready to try something new and realized to make the intricate pop they had in mind they needed to expand.