With their icy new electro-dance single ‘Stick Tie Lock Tether’ Folding Legs are certainly contributing to the "Europeanization" of the NYC sound. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that singer Katharina Stenbeck and guitarist Chris Cerny hail respectively from Sweden and Austira. With her elegantly minimal and slightly alienating melodies, Katharina channels the melodic maturity of a Siouxie Sioux from the "Suprestition" years, while the electronic backdrop (a new development for a band that got us used to a more electric sound) recycles elements of the European electronic pop-goth movement of the 80s – think Pet Shop Boys and early Depeche Mode. The brand new video streaming below adds an extra, visual element of dark decadence that links directly to the materic European expressionism of the early 20th century.
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best electronic songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!