Nathav Sings in English on Moon River, Nine Years After Her Danish Debut
The Copenhagen Songwriter Came Back with Four Songs of Electronic Blues and Minimalist Synth-Pop
You Still Miss Her opens the Moon River EP by Nathav on a piano figure in an uneven 5/8 pattern. Halfway through, a bank of synthesisers rises underneath it. The song first came out as a single in May 2024. It was the first new Nathav song in almost nine years, and the first she sang in English.
Nathav’s title track sits in the playlist below, among our pop and art-pop picks. Moon River came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play on the EP, then read on for the nine years that led here.
The Long Pause Before Moon River, From a Danish Debut in 2015 to Nathav Singing in English
A Voice That Had Already Led Three Bands
Nathav is the solo name of Mathilde Lunderskov, and it joins the Danish words for night and sea. By the time she chose it, she had already spent years at the front of other line-ups. She sang lead in the Scandinavian indie-pop band Lovebites, which released three albums. After that band split, she founded the dream-pop and noir group Blake and toured Europe with it. Then, in 2010, she formed the synth-pop duo Umatic with her brother, Lukas Lunderskov, and released the album Ashes & Diamonds.
Her own biography notes that her voice and style are often compared to Kate Bush and Goldfrapp. Both comparisons point at something specific. Kate Bush made her name with a high, dramatic vocal set against piano. Her 1978 single The Man with the Child in His Eyes is one example. Similarly, Goldfrapp’s 2000 debut, Felt Mountain, put Alison Goldfrapp’s voice over electronics that borrowed from old film scores. Reviewers heard a similar pull towards old Hollywood on this EP.
Nine Years Away From the Nathav Name
Nathav began as a Danish-language project. The single Tiger came out in April 2015. The self-titled debut album followed on Target Records that August, with seven songs including Hedy Lamarr and Er Det Blod.
Then the project went quiet for a long time. According to Nordic Music Central, family matters and then the pandemic kept her out of circulation. In between, she appeared as one of the guests on Unify, a 2016 single by The Ball and The Wall. Otherwise, no new Nathav release came out until May 2024. When the songs did return, they were in English.
That is the moment Moon River belongs to. Lunderskov had three bands and a Danish album behind her. She restarted the project in a different language, with the same producer at her side. So what would a return like that sound like after so long away?
Four Songs of Electronic Blues on Moon River, and What the Return of Nathav Answered
The Four Songs, Track by Track
Moon River came out on 29 November 2024 on Horror Comfort, and it runs just under 15 minutes. Two of its songs arrived first as singles: You Still Miss Her in May and Boy Model in August. The producer is Noah Rosanes, who also produced the 2015 debut. The two go back a long way, since their parents sang together in the 1970s disco vocal group Flair.
The opener sets the terms. You Still Miss Her is electronic blues about standing in the shadow of a partner’s earlier love. Nordic Music Central’s David Bentley traced its piano to a 3+2 pattern in 5/8. He also noted how the synthesisers build to two separate peaks. Meanwhile, Extravafrench heard Vangelis and old James Bond soundtracks behind it.
Boy Model, heard here in its full version, moves towards downtempo electronica. It follows a young male model in New York who works through the night. The song is as much about loneliness and lost innocence as about the job.
The title track widens the frame. According to IGGY Magazine, Lunderskov wrote the lyrics of Moon River with Edie Kuhnle in the Hollywood Hills. In addition, Obscure Sound hears the song in two halves. Old-Hollywood balladry comes first, and then a warning about trusting a pretty face.
Finally, Look at Us Now closes the EP on a piano progression recorded live, as IGGY Magazine reports. It turns the famous gap on the London Underground into the image of a wound that will not close.
What Moon River Answered for Nathav
A return after nine years raises two fair questions. Would listeners still come, and would the voice carry over into a new language?
The streaming figures answer the first. On Spotify, the four Moon River songs are the four most-played recordings in the Nathav catalogue. You Still Miss Her leads with 10,111 plays, ahead of Look at Us Now on 8,561. Moon River follows on 7,467, and the full version of Boy Model on 5,785. By comparison, the most-played song from 2015, Tiger, sits on 4,793. Those figures were read on 17 September 2026.
The reviews answer the second. Obscure Sound heard a bluesy spirit in the vocal on the opener. Nordic Music Central singled out a soprano that cuts through the synthesisers at their peaks. Later, the same site put You Still Miss Her in its 2024 Songs of the Year, and its review of the next single records that choice. That coverage ran in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and German. End Sessions wrote in Spanish, for example, and Music For All in Portuguese.
The project has also kept moving since. Nathav followed the EP with Don’t Quit Your Day Job in May 2025 and Over You that December. As a result, Moon River now reads as a restart rather than a one-off.
So this is an EP for listeners who like their pop slow, dark and led by a voice. It also suits anyone curious about what nine years away did to a songwriter with three bands behind her. Start with You Still Miss Her, then let the other three songs run in order.
NewMusic.News curator team: “Moon River earns its place on our features desk because the return kept its foundations. The Danish songs of 2015 were built on piano, synthesisers and Mathilde Lunderskov’s voice. The English songs of 2024 stand on exactly the same three things.”
Listen to You Still Miss Her on Spotify. Follow Nathav on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Her official site lists new releases and concert dates.
