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Single Reviews
Single Review: Datarock – Give It Up (Nettwerk)
By Marc Samuels | Published on Monday 18 May 2009
They may be Norwegian, but for once here’s a band who I can’t describe by resorting to “Scandinavian melancholy” clichés, since Datarock are a resoundingly happy bunch, what with their delirious poptastic bursts of Talking Heads-esque post punk funk, of which ‘Give It Up’ is a rather fine example. Probably the best song with a line about receiving an enema you’ll hear all year (unless The Hidden Cameras have a new album out in 2009), ‘Give It Up’ is the sort of song you could only hate if you hate pop music, period. Onto the remixes then. Kissy Sell Out ups the bass and presses the button marked ‘ear-splitting dancefloor anthem’, whilst Fan Death and Chateau Marmont both focus in on the track’s latent 80s vibe, the former turning in a deliciously fizzy slice of synthed-up Europop, whilst the latter has a riot of fun by shoving the vocals through a vocoder and piling on the 80s sequencer arpeggio riffs and syn-drum sounds. It’s all good, really. MS
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