Kleerup: Kleerup

Swedish producer Andreas Kleerup is clearly fond of working with an array of female vocalists, but his music is more than just a showcase for the talents of Robyn and Lykke Li. The instrumentals sprinkled throughout his debut show that Kleerup doesn't need vocalists to hide his flaws, but chooses them carefully to enhance his strengths on certain songs. Last year's single with Robyn, "With Every Heartbeat", is certainly a coup for both of them and it might have been tempting to team up for an album-length collaboration. But the song only shows one side of Kleerup's music and he apparently has many more sides to show us. Diversification is how he avoids losing his own identity among a bevy of talented Scandinavian singers.