I first heard Miss Universum while dancing to mostly early-90′s club classics in a dingy hole-in-the-wall dyke bar in Stockholm called The Cave Club. The place was full of queer kids pumping their fists to La Bouche and spinning around to the sound of Phats and Small. Nothing made heads nod quite like BIG . Universum is a hybrid of gossamer and gravel – her tone calls to mind the speak-song sleeze of Peaches and Lizzy Mercier Descloux with sweet lingenberries spread atop. At first it seems that it’s just gonna ride that bass octave alone, but the song quickly fleshes out into a four by four fugue.

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