Sweden seems to be mass producing artists who make amazing music these days and with the pop-electro duo of female vocalist Malin Dahlström and producer Gustaf Karlöf, you better expand that list to make room for them as Niki & The Dove. Instinct is their debut album that deserves some anticipation on your end. The spectrum of great songwriting, beautiful vocals and fantastic production combine on Instinct, in ways that will impress you more ways than one. (via Hillydilly)

Track List:

01. Tomorrow
02. The Drummer
03. In Our Eyes
04. The Gentle Roar
05. Mother Protect
06. Last Night
07. Somebody
08. Love To The Test
09. DJ, Ease My Mind
10. Winterheart
11. The Fox
12. Under The Bridges

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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.

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What happens when you mix Kate Bush, Björk, Goldfrapp, and Feist? You get Sweden's Niki & The Dove as result. Recently placing fifth in BBC's most promising new music with Sound of 2012, the duo promises to bring more cutting edge pop and electronica. Check out their song, "The Drummer" via Sub Pop Records after the jump.

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