Molly Nilsson: the synthpop star embracing hope and loneliness

With her utopian outlook and determination to find magic in the everyday, the fiercely independent Swede swims against the tide When synthpop singer Molly Nilsson plays live, she takes a CD of her instrumentals, hits play, then sings along with them in a glorious kind of self-karaoke. There’s no band, no instruments, just a woman singing about love, ennui and Milton Friedman. “If people are provoked by seeing a person on stage singing, that’s good,” she audibly shrugs dow