Some critics regard record-breaking streaming figures as a passive success, as if all it takes to rack up more than 500m plays is being the first track on a Laidback Brunch playlist. Despite the often clinical edges to her sleek electropop, Karen Marie Ørsted – AKA Mø, AKA the distinctive voice of Major Lazer’s Lean On, the most streamed Spotify track of all time – is the opposite of passive. More jumpsuited dervish than chilly diva, the Danish singer stalks the spaces within her three-piece band in a constant, loose-limbed choreography of wild gesticulation. Her voice is equally restless: piercing and ethereal when required to negotiate her often stratospheric melodies – as on the orbital funk of Slow Love – but also demonstrative, endearingly growly and, on occasion, fiercely percussive.

With her second album still a work-in-progress, she revisits much of her 2014 debut No Mythologies to Follow (including the dramatic Dust is Gone, the sort of torch song Lana Del Rey might write if she was obsessed with Tron rather than the Great Gatsby) and debuting confident new songs such as cyborg slow jam All I Do. Mø’s recent standalone streaming megahit Final Song is at least as good as her actual final song, but that spirited communal rendition of Lean On climaxes with her being held aloft by the crowd in a heroic yoga pose. In recent interviews, Mø has been wondering how best to reconcile a grebo agit-punk hinterland with her current pop trajectory, but clearly has enough energy for either, or both.

• At Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, 16 October. Box office: 0115-828 3173. At Arts Club, Liverpool (0844 477 2000) 18 October. Then touring.