Karl Kave & Durian

Feeling nostalgic for cheap synthesizers and rhythm boxes? Karl Kave & Durian cultivate an affection for the sounds of machines used before composition became computer-based. The duo seem unwilling to situate their music clearly in time. A demo tape found in a teenager's bedroom in the 1980s? A contemporary update of so-called retro music? Regardless, this chimerical music, which oscillates between synth-pop and new-wave, hits home because it more readily chooses detours and imperfection, and invites its audience to dance in a society that perhaps asks itself too many questions.