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Gig: Mø Mø’s journey from teenage punk playing at
squat raves around Europe to major labelsigned popstar has been one of the more curious narratives in music over the last few years. After releasing an album of heavy, roughedged art pop called No Mythologies To Follow in 2014, her career pivoted around one song, the monster hit Major Lazer collab Lean On. Now firmly on the breezy, tropical pop path, she releases her long-awaited follow-up album Forever Neverland at the end of October and comes to Stockholm in November. Mø, Annexet, Nov 28 Gig: Lykke Li When Lykke Li returned this summer, possibly motivated by Sarah Klang’s challenge to her title as Sweden’s saddest popstar, she made sure not to do things by half, hence the title of her new album, So Sad, So Sexy. But while the sadness remained, she’d updated her sound, moving away from the old-school acoustic pop of her last album I Never Learn and side-project LIV to cold, minimal hip-hop and R’n’B inspired beats. All that made for an album that’s 100 percent one of the year’s best, and after a triumphant show in the rain at Way Out West, she takes it to Stockholm in November. Lykke Li, Annexet, Nov 10 Gig: Jaakko Eino Kalevi Finish pop auteur Jaakko Eino Kalevi has been absent from the solo album game since 2015’s self-titled record, but now he’s finally back. He made his return in August with Emotions In Motion, a brisk, slick synth-pop track, and followed it up with People In The Centre Of The City. His new album Out Of Touch, out in October, takes themes like internet-immersement and urban fatigue and pushes them through Jaakko’s pop music via Soviet disco filter. It comes to Fasching in late November. Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Fasching, Nov 30 28 Photo: Jack Bridgland Photo: JMaxime Imbert