Nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes, and Molly Nilsson writes songs about both.
The Swedish-born singer began her career making hazy synth-pop tracks, with titles like “More Certain Than Death” and “I Hope You Die,” that suggested love and mortality were always intertwined.
But, over the past decade, politics has increasingly shaded her work: A Nilsson record might be the only place where references to late capitalism and the trickle-down economy feel perfectly at home in a pop song.
Over her 16-year career, Nilsson, 39, has established a cult following while working outside the music industry’s norms.
For years, she pressed her own records and hawked them around record stores herself.
Persons:
Molly Nilsson, ”, Nilsson, that’s, ” Nilsson
Organizations:
Vogue
Locations:
Swedish, Berlin