We've had our eye on Norwegian singer,Maya Vik, for a hot minute now thanks to her catchy, funk-sizzled electro-pop, great hair, and her penchant for working a bass like a Robert Palmer girl. Except she's actually playing the bass with aplomb, which makes her a bajillion times more cool. If you like Robyn, you will dig her. But this new track, "Lay Low," rachets down her sass-factor considerably. Here she works a gloweringly atmospheric furrow—a track a awash with stuttered ratatats and Maya's cocooning croons. The song is lifted from her forthcoming EP of the same name, out on December 16 via Oslo Records, which also features reworks of "Lay Low" by Dawn Richard, Little Pain, Morgan Phalen, and Handerre Linn.
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Wanna know something else cool? We've got an exclusive on the Little Pain version as well. You may remember Little Pain as the leader of the sad rap revolution. But how did a kid from Crown Heights hook up with a glacially cool electro-pop goddess from Norway. Maya fills us in:"I've been following him for a while after a friend of mine sent me a link about him. I saw him at 265 Kent in New York a few months back and that was really good. I just contacted him on his sad Twitter account, and that's how we got in touch. The beat and the original song has some sadness in it, and I knew I had to get him on it."Sadness: bringing people together since forever.