Warm Digits Share New Single and Video for “Feel The Panic” featuring The Lovely Eggs
Warm Digits Share New Single and Video “Feel The Panic“featuring The Lovely
Album Flight of Ideas Out 3rd April on Memphis Industries
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“glitch-tinged beat-heavy assault“NME“their chaotic kraut-tronica adds a fun and thrilling urgency to any potential doomsday scenario” The Line Of Best Fit“never-ending rhythms and multi-coloured synths take the listener on a psychedelic ride“The Skinny“disparate parts of analogue warmth, Giorgio Moroder-esque electronic exploration and an often beautiful, battering propulsion“Loud and QuietElectronic agit-poppers Warm Digits, aka Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, have just shared their new single “Feel The Panic”, a collaboration with psych adventurers The Lovely Eggs.
It’s taken from upcoming new album Flight of Ideas out 3rd April on Memphis Industries. The band have also announced a UK tour for April and May.Holly of The Lovely Eggs says of the collaboration: “I’ve known Andrew since I was fifteen years old and in fact we were in our first band together. It was an absolute joy when he asked me to sing on the new Warm Digits album. We’re big fans of their stuff anyway and it’s always lovely working with friends. I think we managed to come up with something which was definitely a Warm Digits track but with egg running right the way through the middle. Like one of those endless pork pies.”
WATCH: Warm Digits’ “Feel The Panic” on YouTube
Lyrically “Feel The Panic” is based around a psychology experiment from the early 1980s, which was published under the name “Being Sane In Insane Places” in which eight people decided to see if they could get themselves admitted to psychiatric hospitals despite not being unwell. They came up with an idea: they would go to the hospital and say they had been hearing a voice in their head for the past couple of weeks. The voice said “thud”. They were all admitted, and from they behaved completely normally to seen what would happen. Most of them received a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
On Flight of Ideas, Warm Digits make a call to arms: when we all think our ideas are right, what are the costs of never believing you could be wrong? Looking back to the history of psychology to find out what happens when ideas outlive their sell-by date, with their vocal guests they set up a blistering musical exchange between fluorescent agit-funk, primary-coloured synth-bounce and fizzing sheets of guitar noise. On Flight of Ideas, the thunderous motorik space-disco duo with a pounding post-punk pulse burst into technicolour, with an album that effortlessly captures the kaleidoscopic abandon of their rapturously-received live shows while moving into increasingly accessible and tuneful territory.
The LP features vocal contributions from Maximo Park’s Paul Smith, The Lovely Eggs, The Orielles, Rozi Plain and Emma Pollock.In an increasingly off-kilter world where reality shifts daily, truth is merely what we decide it to be, and an avalanche of possible identities overwhelms us with possibility, it can feel like our lives are careering towards chaos down a one-way street. The question is: do we “Feel The Panic” or “Shake The Wheels Off”? With its glorious defiance and heart-bursting grooves, Flight Of Ideas calls to our past experience for answers, and dares us to listen. Warm Digits’ Flight Of Ideas is out on Memphis Industries on April 3rd.
It is available for pre-order here.
Tracklist
1. Frames and Cages2. Feel The Panic (feat The Lovely Eggs)3. The View From Nowhere (feat Emma Pollock)4. I’m OK, You’re OK5. Fools Tomorrow (feat Paul Smith)6. Replication7. Shake The Wheels Off (feat The Orielles)8. Everyone Nervous (feat. Rozi Plain)9. False Positive10 Flight of IdeasTour dates4th April – London – Rough Trade East30th April – Newcastle – The Cluny01 May – Manchester – Soup Kitchen09 May – London – Purcell Rooms
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