In honest Hess-ian fashion, the maturity of the sound is offset by a tendency for the childish, the curious… a subversive lightheartedness, which traces back to Hess’ early works. Take the chorus to ‘I Love My Life… Again and Again’, laid above an innocuous drum machine beat: “I Love My Life/I Fuck My Wife/Again and Again”. The ironies and pleasantries flow into a larger mood of mellow existentialism, with which Hess greets the oncoming seriousness of life as a father. Much has happened since Hess’ began the project in the early 00’s. CÆKE represents a return to the basics, but the basics have changed. Life has changed. The world has changed.
CÆKE is Hess finding the melody of a new life. One that makes room for both seriousness and carefreeness, the introspective and the outward, the living room and the dancefloor.
TRACK LISTING
1. I Love My Life (again And Again)
2. Are You Sleeping?
3. You And Me And Them
4. Walk Me Home
5. You Don't Dance (Extended Version)
6. Halløj, Kan Du Høre Mig?
7. Always There
8. Sometimes You Get Lucky
9. I Love My Life (again And Again)
10. Are You Sleeping?