The Warm Digits - Keep Warm With The Warm Digits

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Has anyone else heard this record? I've been playing this record nearly constantly for the last week after accidentally stumbling upon one track on Spotify. There's something a bit 'Fisher Price - My First Krautrock Album' about the whole thing but that's also to imply it's kind of difficult to dislike.

They are incredibly open about their influences - there are tracks called 'Trans-Pennine Express' and, even more brazenly, 'Here Come The Warm Digits' but at the same time they're incredibly good at what they do - loads of gorgeous synth melodies running through the whole thing. So yeah there are the usual influences in there - Kraftwerk, Neu!, MBV guitar noise, but they also remind me of Holy Fuck and the first Lindstrom & Prins Thomas album and the Emeralds and, weirdly, Robygiv. Other than that I know nothing about them - presuming they're from the north of England somwhere.

Trans-Pennine Express
A Warm Front Coming In From The North

There's some other live stuff on Youtube but otherwise very little to actually link. The whole album is on Spotify though.

Reminds me a bit of a more guitar-heavy version of Alpinestars, who were doing krautrocky electro about 10yrs ago. There 1st album is worth a listen: http://open.spotify.com/album/1crUZO9ybBZXzdommmIpy3

"Their", that is!

Colour me intrigued.

Hah yeah I remember the Alpinestars, I think I saw them at Glastonbury once. They were also very Fisher Price My First Krautrock Album iirc.

listened to a bit of this on emusic the other day 'cause i liked the sleeve, sounds pretty cool

Alpinestars sounded pretty decent on re-listening, but are badly let down by some very weedy vocals.

I liked that Warm Digits album, also had shades of Plone and Ulrich Schnauss IMO.

Plone

yes indeed. need to listen to plone again

Received CD copy of this when I nipped home for lunch & to do some physio just now, and listened to the first 2 and a bit tracks as I drove back to work. You can tell EXACTLY what it sounds like from the cover artwork and the tracklisting. Great fun. Good call, Matt.

New album 'Interchange' is streaming http://www.basic.fm/radio/ and on first listen it's a step up from the first album.