Enjoy electronic symphonies for the brain? Look away now, then! Here's some drunk-in-a-field synthetic rock just in time for the festival season ...
Jens Moelle and ?smail T�fek�i, aka German indie-dance duo Digitalism, don't really do subtle. Part of a scene that emerged out of forgotten dance genres such as electroclash and nu rave, their raison d'etre is simple enough; big dance riffs, big beats, big choruses. Their re-workings of tracks by the likes of the White Stripes, The Futureheads and Klaxons saw them emerge alongside DFA and Soulwax as acts most likely to continue the dance/rock hybrid that Daft Punk helped initiate. With their forthcoming second album, the awkwardly titled I Love You, Dude due out in June (and featuring a co-write by Julian Casablancas), the pair are hoping to get everyone dancing like it's 2006 again. 2 Hearts ? a Guardian exclusive ? opens with a heavily-treated guitar figure before a very Klaxons-circa-Myths-of-the-Near-Future chant-like chorus kicks in over an arena-sized synth riff. This isn't intricate or complex dance music for the brain, it's energised, drunk-in-a-field synthetic rock for the impending festival season.
2 Hearts is released on 13 June via V2/Cooperative Music
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/apr/18/new-music-digitalism-2-hearts
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