New Musical Express - Single Review: Hafdis Huld - 'Kongulo'

‘Kongulo’ means spider for those of us who are not familiar with Hafdis’ native Icelandic tongue, and written as an ode to French(spider)man Alain Robert. Made famous by climbing skyscrapers using his bare hands, Alain’s recent vertical-based venture led to him deploying a banner that read “Global warning kills more people than 9/11 every week” from the New York Times Building. If you’re hoping for an iconoclastic soliloquy of disquieting verses as a soundtrack to this two finger salute to establishment, think otherwise; expect microwave-warm Scandipop over-seasoned with a KT Tunstall-esque folky schmaltz - ‘Kongulo’ is so saccharine, it bores. 3/10