Warm Digits: New Album 'Flight of Ideas' Out April 3rd

On "Flight of Ideas", Warm Digits make a call to arms: when we all think our ideas are right, what are the costs of never believing you could be wrong? Looking back to the history of psychology to find out what happens when ideas outlive their sell-by date, with their vocal guests they set up a blistering musical exchange between fluorescent agit-funk, primary-coloured synth-bounce and fizzing sheets of guitar noise. On Flight of Ideas, the thunderous motorik space-disco duo with a pounding post-punk pulse burst into technicolour, with an album that effortlessly captures the kaleidoscopic abandon of their rapturously-received live shows while moving into increasingly accessible and tuneful territory. The LP features vocal contributions from Maximo Park’s Paul Smith, The Lovely Eggs, The Orielles, Rozi Plain and Emma Pollock.

"The View From Nowhere" refers to the mid-century approach to psychotherapy which required the therapist to remove the ‘self’ from their view of the patient. Josie Brookes and Tom Madge responded to the struggle inherent within this idea and the pulsating ebb and flow of both the music, and the personal narrative within the lyrics.

Always a band looking for inspiration outside the norm, Warm Digits have on the new LP delved into the history of human interaction and its failings, and how ideas and theories can live on as received wisdom long beyond their sell-by date. Digging up dusty pockets of history and long-neglected research, they were surprised to find much that seemed suddenly relevant again, metaphors for modernity that felt almost accidentally important: a controversial 70s experiment in which a psychology professor claimed to have infiltrated psychiatric hospitals to show that the definitions of who is “sane” and who is “insane” are barely more than arbitrary; a study showing women are twice as likely to be injured in road accidents because cars were only designed with male crash test dummies; and psychoanalysts' efforts to be a "blank screen" for their patients, rather than people with their own point of view. “Flight Of Ideas” itself is a psychological term for a state of overloaded and disordered thought, whose relevance to our current information landscape hardly needs to be pointed out.

In an increasingly off-kilter world where reality shifts daily, truth is merely what we decide it to be, and an avalanche of possible identities overwhelms us with possibility, it can feel like our lives are careering towards chaos down a one-way street. The question is: do we “Feel The Panic” or “Shake The Wheels Off”?

Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-v_zD0hrQc&feature=youtu.be