Wauwatosa is a Norwegian collaborative music project centred around core producers and songwriters Sigurd Ytre-Arne and Martin Langerød. The duo work with a collection of friends and collaborators from their hometown of Oslo to weave together outsider pop songs that are intricately crafted but feel effortless.
Wauwatosa's sophisticated take on pop music is classically Scandinavian. Their songs layer dusty samples, saturated synths and skittering drums around strong vocal performances, embedding sticky melodic hooks inside rich and constantly shifting sound worlds. Their complex pop constructions land somewhere between the expansive modernism of acts like Son Lux and Little Dragon and the freestyling kitchen-sink approach of acts like Gorillaz and Superorganism.
Wauwatosa are part of the Spirit Level family, an artist-run label based in Melbourne and founded by musicians Tim Shiel and Gotye. Check out this playlist to hear more from the Spirit Level roster: We Are Spirit Level.