Growing up in the forests of Norway's Hallingdal Valley, 23 year old Monika Engeseth nursed the dream - or rather, the conviction - that she'd one day be creating music. But she couldn't have predicted the intense, electronic landscapes she'd create for her debut EP: after just a few months working in the engine room of music production, the young artist has emerged as a one-woman pop factory. She wrote her first song at just ten, inspired by the loss of a friend who was moving away, and the theme of saying goodbye - with its heady mix of pain, contusion and eventual resolution - remains a rich subject for this suite of robust, endlessly melodic pop songs. A couple of years ago, enrolling on a music production degree in Bergen, Moyka "dived into the synth world".

Working witth Cubase and soft synths and samples, she learned how to create, blow by blow, "my own, mystical, synth driven universe". Moyka is a contradiction: a private person who writes confessional music, For anyone who...