It seems like ages since today's song was going down a storm with the chatroom listeners on the Just Some Punk Songs show (a check reveals it was the 11th of October) but the single and accompanying video were only released last week so it's a perfect excuse to get the band back on here.
If you've missed their 3 previous appearances (the last of which was earlier this year with a fabulous cover of The Exploited's Hitler's In The Charts Again), a quick recap. They're a post-punk indie pop trio based in Oakland, California who feature the distinctive vocals of relocated Glaswegian Allan McNaughton (he's ably backed by Phil Benson (bass/vocals) & Phil Lantz (drums). Last year saw them release debut album Kebab Disco, an impressive mash up of 70's & 80's punk with C86 era jangle pop.
2020 has seen them continue in a similar vein with the Rent/Your House ep and now the Personal Computing 7". The orange vinyl version is available if you do the Slumberland Records subscription, but the black vinyl can be bought separately on its own online, and it is available in shops : https://www.slumberlandrecords.com/slr30singles
You can find the digital version here : https://neutrals.bandcamp.com/album/personal-computing
In The Future predicts that life will be good; modern homes...geodesic domes, plenty of food, no more wars, robots to do our work and even flying cars. It's an bittersweet song recorded before the Covid outbreak as we realise it's a future that'll probably never transpire.
The title track ups the pace a little with some gentle Wedding Present style jangling and joyful backing vocals. It's about an obsession with computer magazines and obsolete machines (the one's that you sat there for ages staring at as they took forever to load). This is Personal Computing...
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