19-year old Swedish prodigy Elias fearlessly mixes sonorous pop ballads with astute R&B-sampling based production smarts. After breaking out with the gospel-influenced passion play 'Revolution', Elias's talent sticks out like a fruit tree in a desert wasteland. But being gifted with a resounding dramatic voice in the vein of Antony & The Johnsons - plus a James Blake-like knack for strangely beautiful, experimental sonics - will tend to do that.