News Just A Number 05272011

Being derivative isn’t the most desirable of features, but it’s forgivable when the outcome is something as luscious and inventive as this. There has, understandably, been a bit of buzz about Just A Number 05272011 since they debuted their videos recently, and much of that is down to the fact that they sound almost exactly like The Knife might have done if they were starting their careers afresh now - ignoring all the mountainous paradox of one of electronic music’s one of most influential acts having never existed, that is.

But just as the hipster in each of us wants to be the one to say that they were the ones who found a band first, the two tracks that the band/artist/whatever have released so far override all logical envious reaction to being a bit further down the hype ladder than you once imagined. These tracks are the reason you listen to music in the first place – perfectly pitched, wonderfully structured and outrageously confident, this is what you’d hope that all pop music one day would sound like.

There’s no information - but that’s pretty much standard procedure now, isn’t it? And when you’ve tracks as perfectly formed as this sitting about, there’s no point scrabbling about to find out how it’s being made. If it turns out to be Karin Dreijer Andersson behind it - something not worth ruling out yet - it wouldn’t be any major shock, but if it’s not then we’ve just welcomed another behemoth onto the electronic pop scene.

THE PAIN by Just a number 05272011

He Didn’t Want A Love Song from just a number 05272011 on Vimeo.