“Morning Song is about pure, unselfish, unconditional love. I actually wrote it a long long time ago, but then I was just fantazising. I didn’t feel like that, I just wish I felt like that. Now, when I sing it, I can’t help but singing to my daughter.

It is paraphrasing the classic ballad “Jag ger dig min morgon, jag ger dig min dag”, by Fred Åkerström (the Swedish version of Tom Paxton’s “I Give You the Morning”). It was written on guitar, but felt better centred around the harp. The harp is surrounded by gentle synths blip blops, pipe organ, harp through guitar pedals, cherub harmonies and sample voices.

The heart of the song is its two lead vocal lines, equally important, that are going in and out of each other. I was probably inspired by the way Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse did this in some of the duets on “It’s a Wonderful Day”. Actually, I borrowed another thing from Sparklehorse on this song, but I will let the listener find it for herself“.

Majken is a Malmö-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose work straddles the sacred and the distorted. Playing guitar, piano, and harp, she crafts emotionally layered songs that blend lo-fi textures with high-fidelity ambition. She calls her sound “gospel-grunge” – a term that reflects the contradictions at the heart of her music: the raw and the holy, fuzz and clarity, doubt and devotion.

Upcoming LP ‘Korus’, out October 24th via Sing A Song Fighter and produced with longtime collaborator Damon Tutunjian (Swirlies, Mew), marks Majken’s first album in six years and is the culmination of a period of immense personal and creative change. Recorded at home, in her practice space, and in Tutunjian’s basement studio, ‘Korus’ blends harp and electric guitar with analog synths, sampled vocals, drum machines, and wood-bodied acoustic instruments.