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NYC alternative pop outfit Laptop<\/a><\/strong> presents their new single \u201cConfused\u201d<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 the emotional and thematic center of their forthcoming album “On This Planet” <\/strong>and their most definitive song to date. Written in response to January 6 (now the 5th anniversary), the track captures the psychological whiplash of watching democratic reality fracture in real time, filtered through the perspective of a man glued to the news, overwhelmed by noise, grievance, spectacle, and historical d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formed in the late \u201990s, Laptop released three albums with Island Records<\/strong> with praise from the NME, The Guardian and others for their stylized blend of synth-pop & irony. Now a multi-generational project with Jesse Hartman <\/strong>joined by his son Charlie Hartman<\/strong>, they are not observing the present from a distance. \u201cConfused\u201d is the sound of living inside it \u2014 aware of history, aware of danger, and quietly aware that even the people telling us what\u2019s happening may not know what to believe themselves. Yet for all its tension, \u201cConfused\u201d is not humorless. Like much of Laptop\u2019s work, the song is threaded with a dry, unsettling irony \u2014 the kind that emerges when reality itself starts to feel absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Confused\u2019 came from the shock of watching January 6 unfold on TV \u2014 but the really twisted part is that we\u2019d been in D.C. two days earlier, visiting family, cluelessly being tourists, while staying at the hotel where the lead insurrectionists were actually meeting. We had no idea. But the city felt off \u2014 weirdly quiet, strange characters everywhere \u2014 like the \u201970s version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. MAGA evangelicals blowing Jewish shofars, that kind of bizarro-ness,” says Jesse Hartman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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