I Love You, Dude

VINYL FORMAT. Featuring a track co- written with Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, new album I Love You, Dude has Digitalism dragging the indie kids back to their electronic party. Ten tracks, each with their own vibrant identity, this is the sound of a band welding dance floor pugilism onto crafted sonic sculpture. "Circles," with its Who-ish keyboard and apparently existential lyrics, sets a new bar for them. "The first album has an outer space style," muses Jens Moelle, "but this one arrives down on earth, it has more songs, more humanity, more depth." Like all energized rockin' music there's a heavy seam of madness in Digitalism's sound. The track "Reeperbahn," named after their native city's notorious red light district, is a festival-friendly breakbeat monster that will give The Prodigy a run for their money. There's lethal dance floor weaponry throughout; "Antibiotics" is a techno explosion reminiscent of the KLF, while "Miami Showdown" is equally epic, an acid-fest they hope will conjure visions of Miami Vice. There are more gems, including the cracking new wave electro- pop song devoted to and named after Forrest Gump co-written - via email - with Julian Casablancas after an introduction from a mutual friend. Like the Tom Hanks character who ran and ran and ran, it's about, "constantly keeping on moving, otherwise you'll be in some sort of psychic peril."