New music recommendation: Esther - Savage Love

Introducing the brilliant Esther with her new single Savage Love. Stockholm-based Esther (Lennstrand), who incorporates the vibraphone into her electronic pop music, launched in 2019 but only last month released her excellent debut album Fragmentality, which features a lot of lovely and unusually structured electronic pop songs.

Two and a half minutes of pop perfection, Savage Love has twinkly laidback production almost reminiscent of Zero 7 at times, but with an urgency and quirkiness usually only found in Swedish indie-pop. I saw Esther supporting The Cardigans in London last month – the band hand-picked her as its support act so you knew she was bound to be good – and good she was; such a talent on the vibraphone, and this delightful track interpolates Satie's classical masterpiece Gymnopédie No. 1.

Throw in a video full of charm and you can see why renowned Swedish radio station P3 has been playing it a lot. Esther has also toured with Lykke Li, Kite, Amason, bob hund, Deportees, and Miike Snow.

Check out Savage Love below: