Neu Sofi Tukker: Batshit Crazy

What happens when a house DJ most used to playing dorm parties with Nicolas Jaar bumps into a musician while she’s performing melancholy bossa nova in an art gallery? No, this isn’t the first line of a very wordy joke - it’s actually the bonkers origin story of dance duo Sofi Tukker.

To be honest, everything else about the pair is absolutely batshit crazy (albeit in the best possible way) as well. So batshit crazy, in fact, that their debut album ‘Treehouse’ - out on 13th April - contains an entire track dedicated to the expression. Doing away with pretensions, and dedicating every last ion to a huge outpouring of pure energy instead, Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern somehow combine the delicious lure of thudding Eurotrash with verses in Brazilian Portuguese, sweary dance hooks reminiscent of Sak Noel’s ridiculous disco-banger ‘Loca People’, and - beneath the pinger-fuelled euphoria - a knack for holding an entire room in the palm of their hand. It’s a skill that comes straight from Tucker’s time on the house circuit, and put to use on their pair’s forthcoming debut album ‘Treehouse’ alongside Sophie’s vocal, it’s magical.

“There’s something about returning to the instinctual nature of an animal that really speaks to us,” Sophie explains. “We try to not think about whether something’s good or bad,” she adds. “That dichotomy is not helpful.” Apparently it’s more about “whether something makes us feel like a soft animal or not,” she adds, referencing the title of their 2016 EP (which takes its name from the Mary Oliver poem ‘Wild Geese’) in the process. “Like a dog wagging its tail,” Tucker adds.