Pitchfork

Fail-safe cover method: Make a loud song quiet, or vice versa. This transmutation is especially effective when you're a Norwegian jazz singer and the song you're covering starts, "I'm a horny loser," as is the case with Hukkelberg's supper-club take on Pixies' "Break My Body". Slowly unspooling an arrangement that utilizes soft guitar, woodwinds, accordion, and brushed drums, Hukkelberg quarter-times Black Francis' frenetic lunacy, turning a screed into a seethe and teasing out the drama hidden in opaque phrases like "I'm a building jumper." The deliberate dynamics and bedroom-intimate vocals amplify the song's masochism way beyond the original's intent; in this take, at this speed, somebody really got hurt."