Un-American Activities Bootleg Edition • LP

“Un-American Activities,” the latest from Swedish outsider Molly Nilsson, doesn’t sound as clean or as striving as the pop music that populates the Billboard Hot 100, but it does have two feet affixed in reality. Instead of pretending to be a brat, a princess, a tortured poet or worse, Nilsson sings about McCarthyism and its dank 21st-century echoes, accompanied by synthesizer technology from the twilight of the Cold War. It’s 1989, Molly’s version

—Washington Post