Keepaway – Cake

Brooklyn electro-pop trio Keepaway are back and armed with a new single following the release of the promising Baby Style EP of 2010.

The band, sounding like a cross between Merriweather Post Pavillion-era Animal Collective and fellow electro obsessed Brooklynites MGMT, has really come up trumps here. ‘Cake’ is a funky, eminently catchy and memorable piece of electro-pop, successfully marrying a reggae-like backbeat and guitar with layers of dreamy synths and vocal effects. The cherry on top of the cake (sorry) is the killer chorus, which finds the trio all joining in with the refrain: lazy, and you’re obvious/ no cake for the curious.

Though there is no getting away from the Animal Collective comparisons (singer Nick Nauman’s vocals even strongly resemble Panda Bear at times), there is enough evidence here that Keepaway is capable of and destined for bigger things.
Keepaway’s debut album Black Flute is rumoured to be released 10 January 2012 on the Greedhead Label.

By William David Wilson

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