2013
Horseshoe crabs, soy protein, pearl tapioca, lychees and a ravishing jaw: Not the typical ingredients of a pop song. However «there is no more day without this song» as correctly stated in a comment under the video to Easter’s single Alien Babies. And yet the duo’s seductive cyber food and bio horror manifesto is only the gateway drug to their intoxicant album «The Softest Hard» released on Ramin Ton, an art collective based in Neukölln. Stine Omar Midtsæter and Max Boss transport the undercooled yet sensual sound and language rooted in dry 1980s No Wave into a dystopian here and now. Easter are uncanny but sexy, David Cronenberg for slow dancers, post-gender, post-human maybe?

2016 Super Sunday
On December 20th, 2005 Max and Stine met at a noodle shop. Max liked Stine and Stine liked Max and Easter was only a few month away… Since then, the art pop duo have crafted their lives into a Gesamtkunstwerk. Their performances are hypothermic, their sound synthetic, and their lyrics unsettling, futuristic, otherworldly. After the album “The Softest Hard” and the über-hit “Alien Babies” came “New Cuisine Pt. 1”, “Beige Eyes”, and the first season of the surreal soap opera “Sadness is an Evil Gas Inside of Me” starring Anika, Britta Thie, and Lars Eidinger. For a pop band, Easter tread a unprecedentedly artistic and stubborn path—it’s with their characteristic stoic calm that they play their cards. And Easter have another ace up their sleeve: Their long-awaited EP “New Cuisine Pt.2” will be presented for the first time on this evening at the Volksbühne.

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