2.0 by Big Data

2.0, the first full-length from Big Data, landed on Warner Bros. on March 20, 2015, and the software-update title fits the project: producer Alan Wilkis named it after the internet's hoovering-up of personal data, and his songs keep circling our tangled relationship with technology. After the 1.0 EP and two remix sets built around "Dangerous", his breakout with Joywave, this is the full upgrade.

Wilkis plays host to a rotating cast of voices: Joywave again, White Sea on "The Business of Emotion", Jamie Lidell on "Clean" and Rivers Cuomo on "Snowed In". The sound is glossy, slightly paranoid synth-pop with a dance-floor pulse, the kind of thing you'd file between LCD Soundsystem and the Postal Service. It climbed to number 75 on the Billboard 200, and the songs found a second life in video games; "The Business of Emotion" was even re-recorded in Simlish for The Sims 4.

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