«Indeed, she [Erika] seems to have grown up in a previous century, in a farmhouse on Orust, an island north of Gothenburg, that raised four generations of her family. “We don’t have the same kind of history in North America,” Simon says. “In Montreal, you know, ‘My mother’s side is Scottish and my father’s side is French.’ In Sweden, it’s ‘No, we’re Swedish.’”
That isolation contributes an elemental, intuitive, informally pagan sensibility to the sound of Erika’s voice. Kate Bush and PJ Harvey have visited that voice.» Mark Lepage, The Gazette
