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Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Datarock - Datarock Datarock


What's not to love about Norwegian electronic dancerockmeisters Datarock? They look, act, and sound like a real-live version of the band from Revenge of the Nerds, and there's only two of them. They've got the perfect balance of serious dancing and rocking with a sense of humor that has yet to grow weary on me, as fantastically demonstrated by my favorite song on their debut full-length, "Computer Camp Love," where Frederic Saroea regales us with the tale of getting laid at computer camp as a kid with lyrics that play off of the similar tale told in Grease, such as "'Tell me more, was it love at first sight?' That's right, this was god given grace with a face you could praise. 'Tell me more, did she put up a fight?'" And as if the call-and-response vocals weren't charming enough, the deceptively minimal drum machine percussion and warm synth horns only play up both the intimacy and humor of the story. Well played, gentlemen.
It is on the album's final track, though, that the boys truly shed their shells and show some sensitivity as only true geeks can. "The Most Beautiful Girl" has Saroea singing lines like "When you told me one of those impersonal tales I really fell for you, it really never fails, but what you gave me when you gave me nothing at all was just broken hearts," over the kind of keyboard chords you only hear when an emo boy breaks out his casio on a rainy day by the window. Take that, Conor Oberst, Ben Gibbard, Blake Sennet, et cetera!

Computer Camp Love MP3
The Most Beautiful Girl MP3

BONUS MUSIC VIDEO:
Fa Fa Fa MP4

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