COBRAH - “GOOD PUSS”

SXSW 2022 - OEB Score: 8; Popularity Index: 8

Pairs Well With…Haiku Hands, Jain, Sofi Tukker

Swedish dance pop artist COBRAH continues her subversive, sex-positive streak on her 2021 self-titled EP, her second and a sonically dense addition to trance-laden hyperpop. Quick rhythms and thick synths form the backbeat of COBRAH’s music, allowing her hip hop infused vocals dance over her music with bounced, rhythmic precision. Celebrating queerness with joy juxtaposes cooly with COBRAH’s deep bass beats, swirling psychedelic influences while keeping dancefloor energy at a high. (Kevin McStravick)

2020 Review: Weird and wonderful, COBRAH’s ICON and follow-up track “TEA” are wild trips of experimental house and electronic pop, deeply psychedelic and performed with the jungle-like bounce. Industrial rhythms and bubbling bass melodies punctuate ICON’s title track, mysteriously introducing COBRAH’s music before turning up the funk on key track “U KNOW ME”. Performed with an unexpected melancholic tone against the thick dance production of the track, COBRAH rotates between a spaced-out speaking to hip hop breaks with measured confidence. The Swedish artist performs with a queer/fetish aesthetic and that drawn sexiness molds her sound, unique with a no-fucks-given attitude to her songwriting and performance.