Listen: Invader Girl - "Starting Fires" (MSMR Remix)

The London-based singer’s voice is undoubtedly the track’s biggest draw, a regal call over stuttering electronic beats whose tone sits somewhere between Sia and fellow Scandinavian Tove Lo: combining the power of the former with the attitude of the latter.

As a first release it sits firmly in the pop-noir camp, cementing MS MR as the ideal duo to remix it, known for the emotive darkness they imbue in their work. The self-professed cyber-pop wizard has admitted she’s a big MSMR fan, and is “super excited” they’ve remixed her song. “It’s always really interesting and refreshing to hear another person’s take on something you’ve done, especially when your own brain is so deeply lodged in the original version of the track.”

While Invader Girl undoubtedly has character, it’s not unfair to predict her sound will prove divisive. Her fantastical lyricism (her subject has a fling with a “necromancer”) and operatic delivery will, to some, seem contrived and perhaps excessive. Arguably those people lack a sense of humour and miss what the newcomer is trying to do. Hers is a pseudo-gothic kaleidoscope of sound, silly and fun, dramatic and catchy. It’s pop as it should be, in all its inconsequential glory. Listen below.

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