Karin My is one of Sweden’s secret weapons.
The Gothenburg-based composer and multi-instrumentalist has worked with a number of the country’s leading artists, including Twice a Man and Robert Enforsen. She appeared on two of the tracks for Heresy, the Rational Youth tribute album produced by Cold War Night Life.
She has now revealed her new single. “The Silence” features the pulsing, filtered sounds of a Kord MS20 and a soaring vocal line. It is elegant and delicate, while thunderingly electronic when the MS20 pushes higher in the mix. Using the kind of tension heard in Madonna’s best work with William Orbit, “The Silence” is as complex as the Berman film with which it shares a title.
Jennie Vee is one of our favourite singers. Whether playing alongside Courtney Love or warming up for Echo & The Bunnymen, Vee is the picture of East Village glam (even if she is on the left coast these days). Her own material is fabulous dreampop, and she takes a great picture. On top of that, she’s Canadian by birth, has a Scottish last name and boasts Finnish roots that once provided the name for her early punk act.