I’m doing an album dive on British electronic producer LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER. His thing is that he really likes analog synths and is a right engineering tinkerer, doing crazy shit like making an organ out of a bunch of Furbies. I was surprised when I woke up one morning and heard that he was the British rep for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. I vaguely heard his name before, I believe he was recommended to me on Twitch sometime during or before lockdown, but I knew he was an online personality who did music. I later found out that he opened for the Pokémon International Championship in Europe, and is apparently the first Eurovision contestant to have GitHub repositories people made based on his projects.

Initially I wasn’t too fond of it, it just felt okay to me (probably an omen). But idk, something about it grew for me. Between the shouty vocals (I’ve been listening to a lot of metal lately), and the punchy production, it grew on me. The only thing I didn’t like as much was at the end, he does this weird cadence on the word “life”. It feels a bit too cheesy for me. Nonetheless it’s still a great song. It’s like if you combined early Blur and generally upbeat Britpop with the production of Kraftwerk. It was authentically British, and pro-EU which probably didn’t make the right-wing shitrags and pundits happy. It’s the sort of thing that, despite the result (we’ll get to that later), the BBC should be sending.

Unfortunately, this ended up last with only one point from the Ukrainian jury, and none from the public – but for me, that doesn’t mean it’s a bad song. Hell, I’m aware that one juror in Latvia rated it first place, based Latvian juror. Sometimes, something just doesn’t vibe enough for Eurovision. Taste is subjective, and Eurovision has never really been an objective consensus on music taste. I would chalk that up to BBC bureaucracy, and Eurovision generally not being a good environment for him.

Hopefully the BBC learns from this. They get a lot of warranted criticism about how they manage things across the board, but picking LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER deserves respect despite the results. Let’s just throw things at the wall and see what sticks, but try not to hang onto any successes with an iron grip like Cyprus and its constant girlbops. Personally, I want to see them send a metal act to Eurovision, lol. As for LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER? Well, I don’t think he needs to worry. He’s starting a family, his museum’s still going, and frankly the Pokémon gig alone mogged the shit out of Eurovision 2026 as a whole.