Apart from one or two lonesome 4-track explorers popmusic didn’t really
break bones in the off-stream musical spectrum for the last ten years or
so. Just when we started worrying about a scene that would become
overruled by eternal drones and loops, Danish pop freaks Girlseeker came
to the rescue. With an oeuvre that sounds like a more dance friendly
and mentally disabled version of Ariel Pink, the trio (live often
extended by the guitarist of Iceage) is ready to herald a new musical
era. Fusion jazz, Alan Vega and eighties AOR are the main ingredients of
the Girlseeker cult and despite the sometimes happy sounding keyboard
patterns, the lyrics embrace the same existentialist crisis of that
period. With the whole electronic eighties revival movement Girlseeker
share a fascination for MTV- and VHS culture, but leaves out all the
irony and false nostalgia. This is pop music in its purest moment:
psychotic outsider art for the romantic listener.