…a perfect example of Bat For Lashes’ sound; she uses natural, organic-sounding instruments to create a beautiful but decidedly unearthly sound. Khan describes her “musical landscape” as one that melds “ancient and modern, dark and night.” She tries to create layers of noise and lush sounds, but admits to the emotional intensity of her music. “The type of music we giving out is quite spiritual,” Khan told HIP Video. “It doesn’t come across well if you’re feeling bad about yourself.”

“Daniel,” the first single from upcoming LP Two Suns, is itself a killer track, possibly the new album’s best. She farmed the main bass groove from the Patrick Bateman school of synthesizers, and marries the 80s aesthetic to her gorgeous choral melodies and thundering tympanis.

Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson and Danish Director Martin de Thurah seem to have met at a creative crossroads. Fever Ray is a dark and deeply introspective work, exploring lots of child-like imagery as Dreijer Andersson tended to her newborn daughter. De Thurah is well versed on childhood innocence, having recently screened films starring children at the Cannes and Venice film festivals. He’s says he’s ready to move on to a new direction, yet here he is shooting “When I Grow Up.”

Swedish director Andreas Nilsson is a vet. Having worked with most of Sweden’s hottest musical exports over the last few years (The Knife, José González, Loney, Dear) he’s developed a distinctive style while picking excellent tracks to create visuals for. But his latest effort, on Peter Bjorn and John single “Nothing to Worry About,” is unlike anything Nilsson has ever done.