New band of the day – No 1,264: Digits

Death and Desire, Digits' near classic of mournful electronica, is a synth-pop album to stand alongside the Human League's DareHometown: Toronto/London.The lineup: Alt Altman (voice, music).The background: There are currently so many girls with synths – Nite Jewel, Grimes, Maria Minerva, Julia Holter, Class Actress, to name just a few – that it's suddenly looking as though women are the natural exponents of all this solo laptop electro-pop lark, and the fellas are being left out in the cold....

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