Brisbane garage rock /indie rock outfit Velociraptor have unleashed their new single “Computer Future Part 1” alongside a music video.
The track features on the forthcoming album ‘Computer Future‘, out soon via Coolin’ By Sound Records. Get it here.
Computer Future – the first LP since their self-titled album dropped back in 2014 – is a collection of songs so excellent that you’d almost be forgiven for thinking that the band had been squirrelled away in isolation working on them the whole time they’ve been gone.
‘Computer Future Part 1’ is a song about the dystopian nature of our modern society and pogoes about like a punk in a mosh pit.
Technology has played an ever-increasing role in our lives for decades now, but is the world we’ve found ourselves in today everything we were promised awaited us? So ask larger-than-life Velociraptor on Computer Future Part 1 as they channel the jubilant euphoria of Devo at their quirkiest, with drummer George Browning taking the spotlight to calmly deliver the urgent missive on where we’re at as a race. Equal parts frightening and enlightening.
Frontman Jeremy Neale says:
“The year is 1982. Computers are the future. But it’s not yet the future. Velociraptor record Computer Future Part I. Fade to black. 2024. Sounds futuristic, sure. But the computers aren’t what we thought they’d be. They can do cool shit, but like, I had a 486 in the ‘90s that could run Space Quest 5. Now I gotta spend two weeks salary on a phone that is designed to be obsolete in a few years. So instead, I spend two weeks salary on a new couch. It’s tangible. Won’t be obsolete anytime soon, we all gotta sit somewhere. But I don’t wanna sit anymore. My posture is cooked. I wanna walk around.
Gotta stay fit. Gotta stay in the game. But I’m tethered to my phone. And the couch is now obsolete, aesthetically.“
Watch / listen below.
Velociraptor are:
George Browning
Julien James
Jeremy Neale
Lauren Jenkins
Corey Herekiuha
Joshua Byrd
Jesse Hawkins
Jake Grossman
Ruby McGregor
Simon Ridley
Photo courtesy of Coolin’ By Sound Records
