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Musical duo Baba Stiltz and Okay Kaya: ‘Basically our music’s for losers’

The Scandi stars were building separate careers in the US when a friend got them to team up. Now the pair have become an unlikely folk-pop powerhouse

These tracks – sparsely arranged, her simple guitar parts wreathed in multitracked vocals, her breathy, knowing voice often centred in the foreground – were embryonic, sure, but were early indicators of her intention to “work on making stuff in a playful way”. He was no genre purist – he loved electronic music from intelligent dance pioneers Plaid to Daft Punk, was a deep house evangelist with a downtempo sideline and signed to Axel Boman’s Stockholm label Studio Barnhus in his teens. “She liked it,” he remembers, “and that made me happy because I’d been in such a weird place.” They soon met again, this time in London, where together they wrote all the songs from Blurb, and travelled on to Stockholm, where Stiltz’s friend Daniel Fagerström (Viagra Boys) was to produce the EP.

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