Majke Voss – Coming Down

Majke Voss found her footing with the project Broken Twin in the 2010s, delivering a pair of dreamy folk releases on Anti. Over a decade later, the Copenhagen-based singer returns under her own name. Today, her single “Coming Down” is out on Broken Records.

The song is simple and wistful, Voss’ vocals cresting over an understated bed of plucks and bowed swells. Captured across organic spaces, the track exudes an intentional rawness.

On the track, Voss shares: “’Coming Down’ is a song I wrote in 2025. It quickly developed with the band when we were rehearsing, so I wanted to capture that rehearsal energy. It ended up being a combination of a lose rehearsal memo and recording sessions in each of our rehearsal spaces, with the noises and bleed that come with it, which felt right to keep. I feel there is a sense of longing in this song – it’s reaching towards something.”

A new year; a big new beginning. After several years out of the spotlight, Danish singer-songwriter Majke Voss – formerly known as Broken Twin – returns with “Coming Down,” a beautiful, stark, and darkly atmospheric creation that accentuates the space between the notes as much as the dramatic placing of her shiver-inducing voice, plus piano, bass and violin.

The name Majke Voss will not yet be familiar as ‘Coming Down’ is the first of a series of releases under her own name. But when she called herself Broken Twin, her debut album May, released on the prestigious Anti- Records in 2014, was hugely acclaimed.

According to The Sunday Times, “The results manage to be heartwarming as well as heart-wrenching.” NME weighed in with, “The most arrestingly beautiful songwriter we’ve heard in aeons.”

Writing about one of May’s peak tracks, “Out Of Air,” Laura Snapes at Pitchfork was similarly inspired: “There’s something about the unaffected clarity of Broken Twin that rings true straight away: the tremor in her proud voice, sure as an arrow in contrast to the lonely pedal steel caws that arc throughout the song, as she sings of a break-up shivering down lonely spines, stark in the moon’s reflection, over a humble, clanky piano line.”

Another rave review came from NPR: “It’s hard to see the hope that glows dimly in the vaporous sounds of Broken Twin’s music. But it’s there, pulsing delicately in the beautifully spare arrangements and haunting voice of singer Majke Voss Romme.”

“We all have different sides to us, different emotions and states of mind,” says Voss. “I feel there is a sense of longing in my songs, and I don’t think longing is just a dark feeling, it’s moving towards something.”

The album’s intimate, emotional turbulence reflected Voss’ relationship with her own songs. “It was difficult to finish May and let it go,” she admits. “It’s the urge to make the songs as good as they can be; not technically, but to make them feel right. Part of why it’s taken so long to release songs again is that I avoided that uncomfortable feeling.”

It was not so unusual for Voss to withdraw into herself. Growing up in the town of Hjørring in the North Jutland region (she now lives in the capital Copenhagen), as a child she would sing and play piano with her father, before writing her own songs. “For years, making music was very much my own world,” she says. “I didn’t let people into that space.”

At music school, she met Emilie Marie Kjaer; together, they became Broken Twin. After the duo released the 10” EP Hold On To Nothing in 2013 (on their own label, Broken Records), Kjaer decided against a career in music. Keeping the band name, Voss followed the EP with a European tour supporting 4AD signing Daughter, a one-off support to Cat Power at Copenhagen’s Royal Concert Hall, and a performance at the Eurosonic festival in 2013, which led to Anti- signing Broken Twin and releasing May.

After the album, Voss/Broken Twin toured throughout the UK and mainland Europe, including a support to Tori Amos and a special headline show at the Royal Concert Hall backed by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra. There was one recording: “Trail To The Sun,” written for the Danish film Breeder released in 2020. The track was a collaboration with Danish punk legend Peter Peter, with whose band Bleeder Voss later toured, alongside fellow Danish songwriter (and Iceage vocalist) Elias Rønnenfelt.

(Voss and Rønnenfelt also duet on the forthcoming “Marble Station,” a cover of the Sort Sol single that 4AD released in 1981, and the title track of an EP to be released by the Danish label Escho in 2026).

Not that Voss had abandoned songwriting; from 2022 to 2024, she studied composition at Copenhagen’s conservatoire. More songs emerged, such as “Coming Down,” which retains all the exquisite and haunting qualities of her earlier work, shining a light on a forthright and raw emotional connection, compellingly cryptic lyrics, and minimal, subtly powerful instrumentation.

It’s been a long wait but Voss – leaving behind the name Broken Twin, “because I no longer felt connected to the imagery that I was getting from it” – is on her way back, not just with “Coming Down” but the other songs that she is currently recording, five of which featured in her April 2025 show at London’s Forge at the Lower Third club. She has concerts lined up in Denmark and the UK through February, where new and older songs combine to mesmeric effect. Given Voss has decided to share her work again with an audience, she has every intention to finish a new album in 2026: “All I know is my songs are pushing me to be released, because it’s getting crowded in here!”

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