Alternate Dystopia

Alternate Dystopia is the fifth album by Ostlandic band Rolv, released on March 12, 2016.

Described as a 'smooth, electronic, virtual experience', the conceptual album features mainly Electronic genres, as synth-pop, house and electrorock, with elements of synth-wave, chillwave, funk, ambient, trance, garage and complextro.

The album's story revolves around "Hard Digital", the main character of the album, which is the leader of a world called, as the album, "Alternate Dystopia". "Alternate Dystopia" is the direct sequel to their past project, 'Blind Fantasy', which was their first album to feature a backstory.

Background
The album liner notes features a whole page with random binary codes, which decrypted relate parts of story behind the album. "Hard Digital is the supreme leader in a world called 'Alternate Dystopia'. In this world, the inhabitants are binary codes. Zeros and ones. Hard Digital is his nickname. In the world of Alternate Dystopia, you have to create viruses to down your adversaries' servers. Hard Digital, greatest of hackers, was chosen to protect Alternate Dystopia from 'The other side', by creating world's biggest and most destructive virus, but in the path, he ends destroying his own. He created a virus, 'Modern Frankenstein', but he took the control of the codebar, and started corrupting the codes of the normal people. — Album liner notes"

In the world of "Alternative Dystopia", the band incarnates an alter ego called  'Future Crookies' , which are know for their round-dark glasses lenses. The 'Future Crookies' are in charge to battle 'Modern Frankenstein', learning some lessons during the journey. The 'Future Crookies' are featured in the music video for 'Riding Rainbows'.