Niki & The Dove

Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now

They return with the same colour and palette, however, there's a different dial selected on the synth-pad. The riffs are smoother, the bass is deeper and there are reverberated claps a-plenty.

Niki & the Dove are making their own quiet contribution to politics on Everybody’s Heart is Broken Now and at the same time having a subtle evolution, rather than revolution, of their own. Same band, different tempo, slow riot.

This emotionally messy heartbroken catharsis cloaked in controlled pop literacy places Niki & The Dove in that underrated set of acts whose strong understanding of the genre hide multitudes in the crevices of a record, and it’s an appropriate home for them.

This album is an incredibly unprecedented but refreshing shift in focus after negating the responsibility to carry the Scandinavian synthpop touch, moving on in a way that is elegant, more purposeful, and smarter, even though it might be less bombastic and more long-winded.

Niki and the Dove's Malin Dahlström has one of the most fantastic voices in pop, and on their new LP she whirls herself into a frenzy to nip malignant growths like heartache and hate in the bud.

They went against what followers might have expected, but make it clear that they've gone through great lengths to mature their sound to wring as much beauty as possible out of pain.