“Very sexual, but also very funny”: Laurie Cakes and pixel.daddy announce debut EP Laurie Eats Cake

The five-track collection sees Laurie Cakes, a vocalist and songwriter who studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus, take on the role of a fictional character – a “hedonistic, horny it-girl” who treats nihilism as a party accessory. Pixel.daddy, a graduate of Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory, produces and steers the project through his DIY collective Spoilr, which recently drew international notice after a legal threat from Boiler Room forced a name change from Spoiler Room.

The collective was set up to counter what pixel.daddy calls the “bedroom producer epidemic”, encouraging artists to share demos and collaborate rather than retreat into isolation. “A lot of Copenhagen music in general has this laidback, cool delivery that can feel unattainable. It’s all very beautiful all the time,” pixel.daddy explains. “I feel like this is a reaction to that. I wanted there to be some more playfulness.”

That playfulness is hard to miss. Each track is built around a joke or pun that gets run into the ground. “Ride Or Die”, a sleek club anthem featuring Nina Dahlgaard, fixates on the idea of being sexually attracted to your car. “Protein” gestures towards an unconventional source of nutrition. The EP takes aim at internet culture – “men generally on the internet”, as Laurie puts it – and the Ozempic-era flattening of desire, all while embracing a maximalist approach that draws more from Shygirl, Kim Petras, and Dorian Electra than from the spare electronics typically associated with the Danish capital.

“It’s definitely very sexual, but it’s also very funny,” Laurie says. The humour is crucial. The character of Laurie Cakes is a vehicle for satire as much as for liberation, and the pair are clear-eyed about the ridiculousness they’re mining. “She’s very postmodern, she’s very with the times. She’s also a bit of a nihilist – very into party culture,” Laurie notes, while pixel.daddy adds, “She’s a demure person. She does things, but she doesn’t really give a fuck.”

Laurie Eats Cake artwork

Laurie Eats Cake tracklist

“Who’s Your Daddy”
“Ride or Die” (feat Nina Dahlgaard)
“Protein”
“omg”
“My Girls”