Niki & The Dove, the new pop practitioners from Stockholm. A double-headed act, they make the kind of leftfield, intelligent pop music that will see them breakthrough in 2012. Forming in Stockholm in 2010, Malin Dahlstrom and Gustaf Karlof have so far released increasingly essential singles and EPs full of emotion, backed up by walls of synths, pounding drums and soaring vocals.
"DJ, Ease My Mind" is another key track in their development. Huge synths and tribal drums are matched by Malin’s soaring vocal. Highly individual, they grasp the fundamentals – to be bold, free-thinking and resolutely forward-looking. It’s timeless yet otherworldly, and is set to be one of the first great singles of 2012. Jakwob, on the other hand, morphing the track into a brooding beast. Stripped of its anthemic
Eurovision-esque vibe, the listener is instantly transported to a deep dark
cathedral of dub.
