Tikkle Me started out as a duo a few years ago by Frida Herchenröther and Karin Taberman, and blog followers with a good memory may remember Frida from the electro pop band Spectroscope, which we wrote about before. The last years the duo has expanded into a shifting collective, adding dancers, choirs and others, who on the live concerts interweaves dance, projections and art, which they describe as more of a performance art show than just a music concert.

The studio reordings have also grown, if I compare with their debut album from 2010, which you can hear on their recently released singles “Niagara” and “Time to Act”. Here they show a beautiful, powerful orchestral pop, which reminds me more than once of Kate Bush. These songs are produced by Niels Nielsen and the video to “Niagara” is directed by Johan F. Wahlberg.

Tikkle Me’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara

Niels Nielsen is exploring space in the new single and video “Dpend”. Fun video and a great song.

Niels Nielsen on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp

Last year I wrote about Niels Nielsen and the album he released then. When he returns here now with the fresh EP “Shadow Twin” in his backpack, I’m met by something quite different. We meet a band now instead, with the tree members Niels Nielsen, Henric Bellinger and Anders Ristenstrand, and also, the less available indie has been replaced by a direct melodic electro pop with dance ambitions. First with the somewhat dark disco variant “Shadow Twin” culminating in techno synths and then the ballad with vibes from the eighties “I’m Not Here”. On the EP there are also three remixes of the songs.

Niels Nielsen on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp

Niels Nielsen released the album “”Welcome To The Promising Land of Hi5ers and Hopeless People” earlier this year. A rather dark album, which at first was hard to get into, but after giving it som more attention a very special album and artist appeared in front of me.

He moves somewhere in between Radiohead’s experimenting disted world and Beck’s lo-fi-acoustic work. Mixing dark disorted tracks with electronica and acoustic songs. Quite unique to my ears and varied.

Listen on Spotify and visit his site.

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