AK-MOMO
Return To N.Y. (Hidden Agenda)
by Marc Hirsh

originally published in Amplifier, May-June 2005

On their debut album, Anna Karin von Malmborg sings with a voice that’s a combination of Kate Bush’s little-girl timbre, Beth Gibbons and Grandma Tzeitel from Fiddler On The Roof, while Mattias Ollson uses obsolete electronic instruments to make like Portishead or Massive Attack with pillows placed over the speakers.

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