Niki And The Dove

Now, I spoke this in the previous post, but I don't think I have spoken about my love for Niki and the Dove on here before.
Niki and the Dove is a group made up of two people, a man and a woman called Malin Dahlström and Gustaf Karlöf. They were formed in February 2010 and they are from one of the coolest places in he world; Europe!

So I accidentally stumbled across one of their songs by accident, called 'The Drummer' some time ago, and I thought the song was amazing, so I decided to buy their album on iTunes and it was possibly one of the best things I have ever decided to do. Their album is one of those albums that you can listen to from beginning to end without skipping a single song.

It's that good.

They are a mixture of indie and electronic funk, just my kind of music. I would as she is Sweden's equilibent to Florence and the machine and I think that is what got me hooked on their music.

So I went to Leeds festival in summer of last year I saw them and they blew my mind. I cried a little bit. Malin was amazing. I was mesmerised by her stage presence, and I was amazed by her voice and the fact that she sounds so much better live than recorded.

I min Leilighet?

So, I have found a new love for Norwegian music and came cross a Norwegian guy called Lars Vauler I listen to his song 'I Min Leilighet' and it was possibly one of the best sounding things I have ever come across by myself.



He is a Norwegian rapper, and I had never listened to any Norwegian music before, so it was all new to me, and it shocked me to find out how similar to us they are with their music taste and I loved what I was finding out about their music. I would say that the song is very "stonerish" and just reminds me of Amsterdam.

Although, I don't fully understand what they're saying in this song, I think the songs title means "In my apartment", so I just have to deduce everything from that.
Anyway, enough of my babbling, you must listen to him, his music is something that we would be into if he spoke English, so why not broaden our horizons with a little bit of Norwegian?

Maybe listen to other Norwegian artists while you're at it?
I have posted a link to his video above, so watch it and tell me what you think!

DISCLOSURE- LATCH

Oh, so EVERYONE, absolutely EVERYONE, has been playing this song. Like, everyone I know has played this song to me like "HAVE YOU HEARD THIS SONG?!" and I always say yes, but instead of them stopping the song and being like "Oh", they play the song all the way through and I can only ask "Really?"

The song is an awesome song though, but I hear it on average, about 4 times a day. If you haven't heard it, you're extremely late and you need to get yo' shit together!
For you that haven't heard it, I'll post it below so you can listen to it, mkay?!

So...ALT-J?

As you guys probably know, I went to Leeds this summer with my boyfriend, I was supposed to go to Reading with some friends, but I decided to go with my boyfriend to Leeds instead, and it was absolutely awesome. I got the chance to see Alt-J live before they absolutely blew up, and I also saw three of my favourite artists ever; Niki and the Dove, Florence and the Machine and Metronomy, but I think you all know how I feel about Niki, Florence and Metronomy, but I don't think you all know about my slight Alt-J obsession.

So by the time Leeds had come, I had already heard of Alt-J and had listened to a lot of their music, so when I heard they were performing at Leeds, I was obviously excited. So I got to the NME stage (the stage they were playing on) and just waited for them to play.

They were... ok.

I mean, the first song they did was Intro, which I loved, but then the famous 'Tessellate' came on and it was so quiet. Like, incredibly quiet. They were playing really quietly and people in the crowd were just standing there. It was a bit strange because they had A LOT of people in the crowd. A LOT OF PEOPLE.

I mean, maybe they were nervous but since then I have seen videos of them performing elsewhere and they have been fine. Maybe it was the fear of performing in front of such a critical crowd? Anyway, I walked away because it was so awkward in the crowd and also because Metronomy were doing a signing and I possibly couldn't have missed that.

Alt-J's album 'An Awesome Wave' was released on the 25th of May this year. It's an awesome listen so definitely check it out on iTunes of Spotify or whatever you want to listen to it on.

Anyway, I am going to leave you with Tessellate to listen to.