Kate Boy - Northern Lights

Everything we touch, it turns to gold. A few months back, the first single from Swedish electronic outfit Kate Boy swept the internet with the force of a blizzard. Northern Lights was a fitting name for the track: icy but inviting, distant yet warm all at once. Over a throbbing bass line that beats like a buried heart and chilling synths that could have been cut from a glacier, the lead singer bares her soul to the listener. But it is only those seven words that matter, Everything we touch, it turns to gold. This is Kate Boy confidently declaring their talent to the world. And wow, what a declaration! It is hard to describe the final breakdown of the song, with synths soaring like comets overhead, but it is a glorious thing to hear.