Waltham Holy Cross

Keiki’s second album, “Waltham Holy Cross”, has been released on Cheap Satanism Records. These amateur devil worshippers will transform this “satanic pop” duo from Brussels into a modern version of Faust. Success, glory. Their souls at the ready. A herd of billy goats waiting to be slaughtered to reach their goal.
It may seem like a simple recipe: steady vocals, striking guitar riffs, beat boxes programmed in “step” mode only and, most of all, the supernatural sounds of the theremin – an instrument as hard to tame as a wild horse. But simple, it is not. It’s straightforward, catchy and groovy. Keiki’s world is even more twisted and funny if you listen to their lyrics about Andy Warhol’s mother (“Andy’s Candy”), homosexual love between a mouse and a dragon (“Rainbow Cheese”), an English seaside town for the elderly (“Skegness”), the love of a butcher for a prostitute in an US mining town (“Lottie Johl”), cancer (“Forest Fire”), stalking (“Glue”) or dissection (“Vital” – a tribute to Japanese film-maker Shinya Tsukamoto). “Waltham Holy Cross”, the album’s title, refers to a small town lost in the London suburbs, close to where Keiki’s singer spent some time during her childhood. The CD sleeve – a collage by Gélise – also pays tribute to life in the suburbs of Britain: arson, sex and kangaroos.