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DATAROCK

Title: Datarock

Label: YAP

Cat No:YAP002
Format:CD

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Datarock hail from Bergen, Norway and they are about to stake their claim as your new favourite band.

Taking the funk-pop framework of classic Prince and the Bee Gees and mixing it with the garage rock snarl of The Velvet Underground sounds like an unlikely combination. But Datarock succeed in pulling it off, showing what a remarkable group they are.

The album combines all the catchiness of electronic pop music with the muscle of a fully-fledged rock band to create a sound that references every thinkable and unthinkable musical genre from the last 30 years of popular music.

Described by the NME (The Buzz, 17 May 06) as ‘bloody great too, kinda like the Velvets collaborating with Daft Punk, only Norwegian and obsessed with Commodore 64’s’, and earlier in The Fly as ‘the most uproariously sleazy, sexually ambiguous camp-disco synth-pop amd one-minute forty-second ejections of skewed punk songs about, I think, George Bush’s pubic hair’

Datarock are on the move…

Track Listing for Datarock
1. Bulldozer
2. I Used To Dance With My Daddy
3. Computer Camp Love
4. Fa-Fa-Fa
5. Princess
6. Sex Me Up
7. Night Flight to Uranus
8. Ugly Primadonna
9. Maybelline
10. Laurie
11. The Most Beautiful Girl

Reviews

pitchforkmedia.com - Nick Sylvester

There's never a bottom line with bands like this, but the bottom line with Datarock is the songs shoot for instant pleasure and accidentally end up being much more than that.

The Fly - Charlie Ivens

Keeps every sensibly twisted mind trained on the dancefloor.

One Week to live

A varied but coherent album that does much to salvage Norway's reputation for bad pop.

M8 - Jerry Bouthier

takes you back to the 80's, when white boys started to funk

Artrocker - René Symonds

It's disco genius, in a camp Devo kind of way.

IDJ - DJ Magic Jase

Two equal parts sublime and ridiculous to one part early 80's Talking Heads. Sheer bliss.

TNT Magazine - Alison Grinter

Catchy as hell, funk-driven electro-pop with knobs on.

NME - JAMES JAM

...kinda like the Velvets collaborating with Daft Punk, only Norwegian and obsessed with Commodore 64's

Q Magazine - John Robinson

Their disco-tinged electronica (is) a surprising treat.

NME

This is a record of great singles waiting to happen.

Arena

Slightly barmy Norwegians, the missing link between Soulwax, Talking Heads and Devo.

Clash - Ian Roullier

Their music, fun and upbeat, yet never throwaway, sets them apart.

Spill - Chaz Folkes

It becomes obvious that along with a mix of thirty years of pop styles and rockstar attitude, a campy sense of humour drives this artist.

Uncut - Sharon O'Connell

A perky, synthpop hybrid with a peculiar sense of humour and an apparent disregard for all notions of cool.

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