Golden Axe: Fantasy Footwork

By Murielle Baker

‘Fantasy Footwork’ is the third album from Auckland psychedelic pop
duo Golden Axe. The frenetic synths and obscure beats attack your ears
with a relentlessness that has ensured Daif King and Chris Cudby a
cult following since the pairs’ days of dominating Auckland’s streets
in 2001. If you randomly picked this album up just to give it a go,
you would think Golden Axe are taking the piss out of pop music –
spacey electronics that ensue a psychedelic high, with riddled vocals
that come and go alongside random blips that make you picture bubbles,
of all things, is a formula the duo stick to throughout the entire
album. The left-field twosome treat the album like a cosmic adventure,
swaying through opener Psypirates and the first four tracks, including
lead single Free Time, to produce an otherworldly atmosphere. Golden
Axe have stuck to what they know works with this third offering and
while you’d be foolish to think that it offers any real substance,
they are shameless with their collection of catchy pop nuggets that
will either drive you insane or produce a face-wide grin that carries
you throughout the week.

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NZ Musician

August/September 2010