Mojo Rising: Sumie

The written word – including wartime letters – inspires Swedish singer-songwriter.

- Kieron Tyler

“I wasn’t certain about making a second album,” says Sumie Nagano of Lost In Light, the follow-up to her self-titled 2013 debut. “The first was so personal. It was like I was writing a diary, making songs out of it and suddenly so many people are listening to it… I was a bit overwhelmed. I thought maybe I should just release something on SoundCloud some time.”

Yet the Gothenburg-based sister of Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano has made a new collection of nine song-stories. With her crystalline voice and finger-picked acoustic guitar framed by strings, trumpet and subtle percussion,