KIDSØ

A beat like a pulse. A chime. Synthesizer sounds that start harmoniously, almost groping, slowly becoming darker, softly droning, gently driving the pulse up, while beautiful voices keep wafting through the track. "Fir", the title track of KIDSØ's debut album, almost magically draws you into a sound that you want to hear and feel at the same time. It is what could perhaps best be described as danceable melancholy. Or, as Moritz Graßinger (analogue synths, piano, percussions) and Martin Schneider (drums, e-percussions, video installation) sometimes say with a smile: "electronic music for people who otherwise don't listen to electronic music that often". Both somehow hit the mark. And somehow also not, or only insufficiently. Because what the two of them produce as KIDSØ can hardly be squeezed into style pigeonholes