Track List­ing:

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. Night­flight To Uranus **
8. Ugly Primadonna
9. Maybelline
10. Laurie
11. The Most Beau­ti­ful Girl **

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If ever there was music to be played at a club, remixed for clubs, and then have those remixes remixed 3 more times, then Datarocks debut album “Datarock Datarock” is exactly that music. Much of the album is bouncy almost to the point of fault. Much of it makes you want to get up and dance until you seizure. Even some of the more sub­dued tracks are prime can­di­dates to have the crap mixed out of them.

This mix­i­bil­ity makes for an inter­est­ing listen. Every­thing is drum machines, 8-bit sounds, synths and gui­tars. I guess that’s under­stand­able con­sid­er­ing the band is offi­cially com­prised of two people (I’m aware the Wiki men­tions a third person, but the offi­cial site does not, so I’m going with that). When you only have two people, you have to get cre­ative with your tools. They do that alright; with some inter­est­ing beat com­bi­na­tions Datarock man­ages to bring a unique feel to many of their songs. There’s a per­son­al­lity to each track, and I think that that takes a lot of talent.

Another major boon for this album is the lyri­cal appli­ca­tion. When you can suc­cess­fully write about ones com­puter camp love affair in a hip hop style, you are reach­ing a lyri­cal level that makes my heart glow. The only people I’ve seen do what Datarock does with their writ­ing are bigger names like Jason Mraz or Cobra Star­ship. If you pay close enough atten­tion to actu­ally hear what the singer is saying, I can guar­entee that you will be well-​rewarded. The fact that ‘Maybelline’ actu­ally has the “maybe she’s born with it” slogan within it is proof of this.

My biggest issue with the whole album is that it’s pretty much impos­si­ble to listen to the entire album in one sit­ting with­out want­ing to take a hammer to either you or your musi­cal device. I know that sounds harsh - prob­a­bly because it is - but hear me out. The big issue with the album is that it all starts to sound like noise after a while; things blend and the magic is lost. You start to phase it out because that’s what your brain DOES with excess noise.

Great for single tracks, well-​written and unique. I’m wait­ing for them to have some remix albums come out.

6/10