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Frida! Like a carillon knell through the storm, the name comes ringing down from the mountaintops to redeem the kingdom of music! Or something. Frida Hyvönen is a swell gal-- she's toured with Jens Lekman, José González, and the Concretes, and last spring released a fine album of spry, immediate piano-pop tunes on the Concretes' Licking Fingers imprint. Have we mentioned she's from pop hotspot Sweden?

Frida will finally get the U.S. indie kid audience she deserves come October 24, when Secretly Canadian re-releases the overtly Swedish gal's ten-track debut, Until Death Comes, here in the States. Frida co-produced the affair with the Bear Quartet's Jari Haapalainen and recorded it at Stockholm's Atlantis studio. This very record spawned the P4k hits "You Never Got Me Right" (four-star track review) and "I Drive My Friend" (Infinite Mixtape), and soon you will be able to cradle it in your very own quivering hands.

Until Death Comes also birthed a couple fine videos, including the stop-motion-happy "I Drive My Friend" and the Kate Bush-worthy "The Modern". Catch them both by clicking the links below.

Hyvönen plays a couple European shows in December, and is presently recording new arrangements of a number of tunes she wrote last year for a dance piece entitled "Pudel", by choreographer Dorte Olesens.

Until Death Comes:

01 I Drive My Friend
02 Djuna!
03 Valerie
04 You Never Got Me Right
05 Once I Was A Serene Teenaged Child
06 Today, Tuesday
07 Come Another Night
08 N.Y.
09 The Modern
10 Straight Thin Line

Frida on the road:

12-06 London, England - 93 Feet East *
12-12 Paris, France - Le Divan Du Monde #

* with Mechanical Bride
# with Anna