My Digital Breakdown

by Joel Holmes

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Written, recorded and performed by Joel Holmes - music video coming soon :)

A frenetic, pulsing, 8-bit indietronica track with some big nods to late-00s Digitalism and late-90's Björk. A projection of stress and anxiety, pandemic included, into some rapid dance-punk.

Also out on Spotify and other major streaming platforms, but here you can download the song and actually... own it... :)

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Come and see my digital breakdown
What a treat, a virtual ghost-town
You can be our little taste of the future
But it feels like present day to me

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I'm trying so hard not to let you down
But it scares me
So I put triangles and squares on the score-sheet over there
It prepares me
We're flying so low, gotta get on with the show, so I'll
See you all next year
But it feels familiar to me

(Dance your way out of this problem
I've never seen anything quite like this so-)
(Gotta go here, gotta go there, gotta go where?
I don't know where, I don't know-)

1- 2- 3- 4-
Come and see my digital breakdown
What a treat, a virtual ghost-town
You can be our little taste of the future
But it feels like present day to me

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released May 17, 2021
Written, performed and recorded by Joel Holmes

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Joel Holmes England, UK

Alt-pop and indietronica experiments from a British pianist/singer-songwriter.

New single 'My Digital Breakdown' out now - music video coming soon! X

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