There's a girl playing at XOYO next month. She's good, really good.

MØ is set to play at XOYO on Tuesday, 5th of November. For those of you not familiar with MØ, here we have 25 year old, Danish singer-songwriter Karen Marie Ørsted and she’s a very talented young woman. Bringing her take on synth-pop to one of Shoreditch’s most prestigious venues will be interesting for MØ, I haven’t used the symbol button this much since GCSE French. It should be expected that she’ll command it with the same erratic energy that she brought to SXSW festival in the summer.

Now, MØ, there it is again, has attracted comparisons to a legion of female artists that utilise electronic influences into their music. Comparisons to Grimes were bound to arise, as well as Ellie Goulding, but MØ seems to have far more going on in her sound, for my money, than either of these two, especially the latter…

So, here’s five whole artists that MØ’s sound brings to mind:

1) Portugal. The Man – Compare the fade outs on “How The Leopord Got It’s Spots” and “XXX 88”. It’s nuts.

2) Early Nelly Furtado – It’s in the way that MØ vocalises those higher notes. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if “Dark Night” had been written for old Nel’, either.

3) Ryan Lewis – Ok, not MØ specifically but the production to her tracks takes on a distinctly Hip-Hop flavour in a lot of her tracks. It’s really tastefully done, too, which is a refreshing change. The horns and snare drums are used brilliantly to emphasise her voice rather cover up for any flaws in it.

4) Karen O – I think this is the one that most immediately struck me when listening to “Waste of Time”. It’s as if she lifted the best parts of Karen O’s voice and John Gourley, of P.TM fame, and mashed them together to create some sort of dizzying hybrid just for me.

5) Lana Del Rey – I can’t stand LDR, personally, but I do have to begrudge unto her that she is in possession of a phenomenal set of pipes; a trait shared by Karen. This comparison can most easily be accessed on “Maidens” when MØ sings in a sultry baritone, a seriously sultry baritone. So sultry it’s wearing fishnets.

XOYO, Tuesday, 5th of November. Unfortunately, tickets are now sold out. However, this should indicate some measure of the potential that MØ has. Hopefully, we’ll see plenty more of this genre spanning Norsewoman in the future, until then, she just needs to keep on in the same vein.