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Cookies With a Smile
Electronic · 2010

Cookies With a Smile

Dada Life

High-octane Swedish electro house built on aggressive sawtooth synths and absurdist humor. A maximalist assault of side-chained bass and neon-drenched festival energy.

April 19, 2010 · Tinted Records

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Cookies With a Smile is a quintessential artifact from the peak of the 2010 electro house movement, a time when Swedish production was synonymous with aggressive, floor-filling maximalism. Dada Life, the duo of Olle Cornéer and Stefan Engblom, perfected a sound that was both physically punishing and conceptually ridiculous. The track is built around a massive, side-chained bassline that creates a rhythmic vacuum, sucking the air out of the room before exploding into a wall of sawtooth synths. It is music that refuses to be ignored, demanding the highest possible volume and the most intense physical response.

Moments Worth Listening For
The moment the side-chained bass ducks so hard it creates a vacuum before the synth explodes
The deadpan delivery of the cookies with a smile vocal hook right before the beat disintegrates
The bridge where the sawtooth leads pitch-shift upward into a piercing, glass-shattering frequency
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Cookies With a Smile sound next to the rest of Dada Life's catalogue?

Spoken Word+1.9σ

The vocals lean notably further into spoken word than the rest of the catalogue.

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