I’ve just returned from the Bergen’s excellent Ekko. The festival (actually more of a ‘season’ of music, with shows scattered across the course of a couple of weeks) explores the remarkable diversity of electronic music being played today, from the abstruse to the accessible.
Casiokids fall very firmly into the latter camp. Their bubbly, fantastically danceable synth-pop (accompanied live by girls in strange lemming costumes and huge balloons) brings to mind a brasher Metronomy, or perhaps a less serious Friendly Fires. Indeed, Casiokids write songs as good as much of the output of either of those bands – and live, they execute them with startling energy and a compellingly odd stage manner.
‘Det Haster’ is the first single to come from Casiokids’ forthcoming second album (and their UK debut) Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen. The single is out 24 October on Moshi Moshi.
- AJ Tracey links up with Pozer on new track, "Heaterz"
- ROSÉ shares new single, "Number One Girl"
- Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee feature on Patterson Hood's first solo album in 12 years, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
- Sacred Paws return with first release in five years, "Another Day"
- Nao announces her fourth concept album, Jupiter
- Rahim Redcar covers SOPHIE's "It's OK To Cry"
- Banks announces her fifth studio album, Off With Her Head
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