Continuing the Scandinavian takeover, Norwegians Oda Egjar Starheim and Øystein Monsen, known as Soft As Snow, are the latest to set pulses racing and bloggers blogging.
Starheim, a Goldsmiths art graduate who also works with performance installation and photography, met Monsen - a drummer and video artist - a few years ago at party in Oslo. This led to their first collaboration later when the former was performing a Yoko Ono-like street performance and roped Monsen in to document it.
The duo, now based in London, first came to attention when they uploaded three tracks to Soundcloud: 'Halo Heart', 'Black Birds' and 'Glass Body'.
Though their name may be a track of My Bloody Valentine, they bear more resemblence to Sweden's The Knife, exuding a fine sense of dark electro/shoegaze/dream-pop quality of their sound wallows in soundscapes of synth pads and the shimmering vocals of Starheim.
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