Electric Guest

Is it honest homage or is it pastiche? Who knows: but this hipster take on cheese could be the next big thingHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton.The background: Electric Guest specialise in soulful, funked-up pop so insidiously catchy you suspect it was designed as a homage to – even a pastiche of – the originators of the form. In fact, it turns out frontman Asa Taccone's brother Jorma is a founder member of American comedy troupe the Lonely Island and helped co...

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Electric Guest

Guardian Music — Is it honest homage or is it pastiche? Who knows: but this hipster take on cheese could be the next big thingHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Asa Taccone and Matthew Com... more info