Pop Goes The World: Globetrot With Oh Land, Margaret Berger, Sinead Harnett, Lancelot & Kate Boy
Kate Boy, “The Way We Are”
If done right, Kate Boy could be to brilliant Swedish pop duos in 2013 what Icona Pop was to 2012. The way that bass thuds is ingeniously animalistic, and the dark sensibility of the production evokes The Knife at their poppier — but no matter how alt it skews, there’s a pop songcraft that shines on the chorus: That “The way we are” hook could only be Swedish.
