Blog: THE RECOMMENDER

NIKI AND THE DOVE If you like your pop music to be cool and glacial, yet draped in effortless theatrical brilliance, then wrap your ears around this new Swedish group, fronted by Malin Dahlstrom.  Comparisons to Bat For Lashes will no doubt follow, for Malin manages to pull the same trick as Natasha Kahn - like she's writing from another world, luring you into a soundscape of drama and cinematic majesty.  It's mystical and ethereal, but never dull and on tracks such as DJ, Ease My Mind you get a sweeping chorus [...]