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On their sophomore album Infinite Wellness, the duo expanded their influences while also considering more aspects of popular music. Farao explains, “One big inspiration for Ultraflex that I listened to a lot when I was like 10 was Janet Jackson’s Velvet Rope and, of course, Cher.” “We’re both big fans of Brittany,” Special-K added, “Also, in reference to this kind of style we call ‘club rapping,’ a good example is the Norwegian band Easter, or like Peaches. The two trace Ultraflex’s influences to pop albums from their childhood and “club-rapping” from their early adulthood in Berlin. That’s where they produced their debut album, Visions of Ultraflex, as a commission piece for a festival in only a week. However they met, the Kari and Katrín trace Ultraflex’s roots back to a spooky cabin in the Icelandic countryside. Or, the third one, we met through common friends. ‘I can tell you like three verses, and you can decide which one you believe,” Special K says, “My dad and Karí’s mom were dating, and that’s how we started making music together. Like their inventive layering of references on their songs, Ultraflex offers three versions of how Special-K and Farao in the form of two truths and a lie.