There's something about MØ that feels like home. Home in a kind of chaotic youth energy that refuses to grow up yet sounds exactly as it should in a hall above Christiania on a cold Friday night in March.
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Six stars
It's hard to find another scene MøSK than the Opera at Christiania. Rustic, punky and a bit skewed in the foundation -- just like her music. Here are no fancy LED lights or excessive choreography. Just Karen Marie, a band and an audience ready to sweat their way into the community.
And it works...
From the first beat of New Moon to the last shout at The Final Song MØ delivers a concert that doesn't try to be anything other than what it is: Bodily, unpolished, raw and uplifting. She shouts more than she sings sometimes, but that's part of the package. No one has told her to be smooth.
The audience is a mix of nostalgics and new fans -- those who were there from Glassware and Pilgrimtime, and those that came about via TikTok and Blur. MØ embraces them all. She jokes with the audience, slings the microphone like a high school teacher on speed and hits us in the stomach with a version of Maiden that is as delicate as it is fierce.
The set list hops elegantly between oldschool hits and more recent experimentation, and even the songs that might not quite work on albums are given life and meaning live. She can still do something with tension and redemption, like few others on the Danish stage. And she does it with her feet firmly planted in the floor -- and her heart out in her hands.
Visually? Minimalist. But intense.
A single person of light, a little smoke and then that almost euphoric energy that strikes when you know you are in something real. She could have played in Vega. She could have sold Tivoli. But she chose Christiania, and that makes sense. Here she must be ugly, strong, vulnerable -- and political, without being flat.
Conclusion without conclusion
MØ is still one of Denmark's most important live artists, and even when her vocals slip, she never slips off. Quite the opposite. She leans into the flaws and turns them into gold.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
(... and perhaps the best venue she's played in since Roskilde 2014.)
