Datarock have returned with a new semi-industrial electronic single Digital Life out now via YAP Records. The song offers a brief escape, inviting fans around the globe to dance through the chaos we are all facing. Ruminating on Brexit, the seriousness of Covid-19, despair of quarantine and the (un)presidential US election being faced once again, Digital Life ultimately points to the after effects of Aleksander Kogan’s FaceBook app, ‘This Is Your Digital Life’. Frontman Fredrik Saroea said, “For the ones who don’t care about lyrics “Digital Life” is the sound of laughing in the face of darkness & desperately trying to enjoy ourselves in the darkest of moments; joy as an act of resistance…”
Listen to Digital Life via YouTube below.
The Norwegian post-punk art rockers have just released a digital anniversary reissue of their debut album ‘Datarock Datarock’. It comes with a collection of bonus tracks including remixes by DEVO, Princess Superstar and Miami Horror. It also features two original songs not heard since 2005: Maybelline and Nightflight to Uranus. The band also shared new animations and a ‘Datarock Datarock’ documentary, created by Morten Vee, which takes fans behind the scenes & into the 2005 debut.
