Battlekat announce split, confirm EP release

Danish electro-noir outfit, Battlekat (formerly Just A Number 05272011) have revealed that they’re breaking up.

The band, who started life under a veil of online ambiguity before emerging as one of Scandinavia’s most exciting live acts, will release the OCEAN / WAVE / FORM EP shortly. Before then, however, they’ve unveiled their Prince-penned, Sinead O’Connor-popularised cover of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U.

The band of their split said in a press release:

“It’s about time to call it quits.

We have tried for so long. And we have tried so hard. But the inspiration won’t come to us. We are very good friends, and have been so for more than a decade. We loved travelling with BATTLEKAT, experiencing new places, playing shows and meeting new people. But we just couldn’t make the creative process work. Unfortunately music is the essence of a band – not just great friendships and great moments.

In an absurd way our new EP “OCEAN / WAVE / FORM” is about its own difficult birth. In the end, music should be a relief – not a struggle.

We will all continue to write music. So stay tuned for new sounds.

We would like to thank everyone who enjoyed our music, attended our shows or just bought into the hype. We would like to thank the many great people we have met. We would like to thank all who helped us along the way – especially Mads and Kamilla from Good Tape Records.”

You can watch the video to that cover below, with our Best Fit session with the group streaming here.