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The quaint, cramped, and normally noisy Beat Kitchen miraculously proved an ideal venue for Frida Hyvönen's Chicago debut, as the tall, charming, and alarmingly frank Swede rolled through town to share selections from her solid Secretly Canadian debut, Until Death Comes.

Frida romped through nearly everything on Death, starting off a bit rusty but gaining confidence as the night wore on-- and as the wine glasses ("Chardonnay!" she joked) atop her compact piano multiplied. The refreshingly attentive audience took kindly to her between-song banter and idle ivory-tickling, the former made all the more endearing in slightly broken, delightfully accented English.

Only "The Modern" came across a mite thin and anticlimactic in the hushed room-- minus the multi-tracked vocals that enliven its finale on record-- but Frida more than made up for it with a handful of new tunes, including a song about touring England, an ace set-closer, and a "Heart and Soul"-esque sampling from her score to the prancing-pooch dance production Püdel.

Watch Frida perform and explain that Püdel tune, as well as Infinite Mixtape selection "I Drive My Friend", by clicking the magic YouTube triangles below.

"I Drive My Friend"

Song from Püdel











Until dates come:

12-06 London, England - 93 Feet East *
12-07 London, England - Water Rats #
12-08 London, England - ULU ^
12-09 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paradiso
12-10 Berlin, Germany - Privatclub
12-11 Lucerne, Switzerland - Boa Bar
12-12 Paris, France - Le Divan du Monde %

* with Mechanical Bride
# with Good Books
^ with Peter Bjorn and John
% with Anna Ternheim