With a long awaited new album ready to drop on 20th June, Digitalism will perform two transcontinental launch shows at XOYO in London on June 13th and Nouveau Casino in Paris on June 14th.
Featuring a track co-written with Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, new album I Love You, Dude has Digitalism dragging the indie kids back to their electronic party.
The first taster last year, the ‘Blitz EP’ showcased a band on fine form, a Kitsune dance-off that rocked floors when they dropped it in clubs from Japan to Jakarta. It was, however, only the tip of the iceberg…
10 tracks each of with their own vibrant identity, this is the sound of a band welding dancefloor pugilism onto crafted sonic sculpture. Circles, with its Who-ish keyboard and apparently existential lyrics, sets a new bar for them… “The first album has an outer space style,” muses Jens Moelle, “but this one arrives down on earth, it has more songs, more humanity, more depth.”
Anyone worried that this means the band have become whiney singer-songwriters need not fear, Digitalism rock as hard as they ever did – if not harder. Like all energized rockin’ music there’s a heavy seam of madness in Digitalism’s sound. The track Reeperbahn, named after their native city’s notorious red light district, is a festival-friendly breakbeat monster that will give The Prodigy a run for their money.
There’s lethal dancefloor weaponry throughout; Antibiotics is a techno explosion reminiscent of the KLF, with a looped sample exclaiming, “You will be disqualified”, while Miami Showdown is equally epic, an acid-fest they hope will conjure visions of, “‘Miami Vice’, a scene at the harbour with speedboats, Mafiosi with moustaches, aviators and black suits, like the Beasties ‘Sabotage’ video”.
There are more gems, including the cracking new wave electro-pop song devoted to and named after ‘Forrest Gump’ co-written - via email - with Julian Casablancas after an introduction from a mutual friend. Like the Tom Hanks character who ran and ran and ran, it’s about “constantly keeping on moving otherwise you’ll be in some sort of psychic peril.”
“My dad’s parents were opera singers, he doesn’t go to clubs or concerts and he doesn’t like a lot of things,” he says, “I sent him the new stuff and he texted me, ‘I think this is going to be a hit.’ So it’s been approved.”
Approved by Mr Moelle Senior and soon to be approved by rockers and ravers across the globe.
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