Summer is a season rife with album releases from up-and-coming pop acts, but Studio Killers' self-titled debut is interesting for a few reasons — the big one being that no one knows the true identities of the animated band's mostly non-human members.
"I'm sure that one day we'll all come out, and I don't think there will be any great surprises," producer Dyna Mink says cryptically over the phone. "[But] if it's not broken, we're not trying to fix anything right now. For the minute, I think it's going to stay that way."
The band's enigmatic lyricist and visual designer Cherry is a bit more blunt. "Only drooling idiots like publicity," she says in an email. "This kind of funky art collective is the best thing on the planet."
Their first album, more than two years in the making, is due out June 14. But Cherry, Dyna Mink and Goldie Foxx made their first appearance in the video for their 2011 single, "Ode to the Bouncer."
The song began as a tune Dyna Mink and Goldie Foxx had written for a girl band in the U.K., but the band was dropped from their label. The mink and the fox were left with a tune they knew was good, but no lyrics and no outlet to release it. While looking for someone to write a top line, they were put in touch with Cherry and, soon after, Studio Killers was born. "Ode to the Bouncer" was a radio hit in Europe, and the video now has more than five million views on YouTube.
