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5th place for the Swedish electro duo
Niki & The Dove have come 5th in the BBC Sound of 2012 countdown. Gustaf Karlöf and Malin Dahlström have been threatening to launch the latest offensive of striking Scandinavian pop on these shores for almost two years. The duo met, while making music for theatre, in Gothenburg in 1999 and had a brief flight of fancy in 2007 as part of folk group The Dora Steins.
They re-emerged in early 2010 as Niki & The Dove, with Dahlström providing ethereal vocals to Karlöf's writings, and before long had pricked the ears of many bloggers with Moshi Moshi release Under the Bridges/DJ, Ease My Mind.
The Fox and The Drummer EPs were to follow in 2011, finding favour with Radio 1's Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, at the same time as the pair were preparing their electro-pop styles to set out on NME's Emerge Radar Tour, alongside Wolf Gang and SCUM.
Articles and Features
BBC News interview
Read the full article 02.01.12
"Swedish electronic duo Niki & The Dove, who want to be "the Bjorn Borgs of pop music", have come fifth in the BBC's Sound of 2012 new music list..."
Guardian interview
Read the full article 15/10/11
"Gothenburg dance duo Gustaf Karlof and Malin Dahlstrom met making music for the theatre..."
Dazed Digital interview
"Swedish act Niki and the Dove combine epic choruses with Eastern European drum styles to make soaring songs dripping with euphoria..."
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Sound of 2012 Artists
Latest Album Review
The Drummer EP
Superbly bright modern pop arrangements, highlighted by neon lamplight.
Last Played On the BBC
- DJ, Ease My Mind
- Steve Lamacq 24/02/2012
- DJ, Ease My Mind
- Greg James 24/02/2012
- DJ, Ease My Mind
- Lauren Laverne Lauren is joined by Bill Nighy.
Upcoming UK live dates
Most Played Tracks
- The Fox
Scrobbles 2324 - Listeners 723
- Mother Protect
Scrobbles 1403 - Listeners 362
- The Drummer (Fake Blood Remix)
Scrobbles 640 - Listeners 356
- The Drummer
Scrobbles 1430 - Listeners 225
- Gentle Roar
Scrobbles 444 - Listeners 158
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Artist Links
- BBC Music Page on Niki And The Dove
- Official homepage at nikiandthedove.com
- Microblog at twitter.com/nikiandthedove
- Social network at facebook.com/nikiandthedove
- Myspace at myspace.com/nikiandthedove
- Last.fm at Niki and the Dove
- Discogs at discogs.com/artist/Niki & The Dove
- Musicbrainz at Niki and the Dove
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Comment number 3.
John Coy12th January 2012 - 20:01
This can not be the sound of 2012. Their percussion is worse than this romanian song from 2003.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhqKk3Sqr5I
Mercury A&R's needs to listen more music....
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Gimme Indie4th January 2012 - 8:38
Full Stockholm live show http://gimmeindie.se/live/nikiandthedove
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rogueowlet5th December 2011 - 14:51
Beautiful video.
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