Hybrid Vigor: Half Nordic, Half Norwich

by Susie Wild on Thu, 2009/04/16 - 11:51am Post to Twitter

I was listening to Marc Riley on the radio last night and he had Mia Vigor in session. I really like her.

I stopped what I was doing and listened as the singer goofily – and slightly drunkenly – rambled responses to his questions, clearly green to media interviews. Born in the eighties to a Finnish mother and an English father, Mia’s music places her as the lovechild of Stephen Merritt and Kate Bush. She writes about infatuation and heartbreak and describes her sound as: “trippy fizzy dirty poppy catchy flirty scary music.” She’s not far off. They are joyously naïve insanely catchy tracks, I can’t stop playing them.

True Adventures Happen Inside Your Head came out in October 2008, the same week that Mia and a boyfriend parted ways. Heartbreak is productive fuel for creativity though and she is already halfway through making the next album. Of it, she writes in her MySpace blog:

“So, I am making another record! God, it feels good to be doing that. I’ve been writing on the guitar a bit, but no more guitar songs will come, so I think the guitar-quota has been filled and the rest will be… electronic/chanson/Disney-goth/piano-ballad/r’n’b with some trip hop? I don’t know yet, really. Chamber music. Film music. Music to have sex to. I can’t tell. I know the images though. There’s a horse.” I don’t know whether I should worry about the lass, but you should definitely listen to her songs.

Hear This: ‘You’re On My Mind Now,’ ‘I Wish You Rocked My World’ and ‘I Dare You,’ I dare you

Educate your tiny little minds: Hybrid Vigor 

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