because the single 'if i had a heart' is really good.
― LaMonte, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
y
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Sunday, 11 January 2009 20:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
ah. Didn't know this thread existed. Just posted this in the Knife/Silent Shout thread:
Tomorrow: digital release of the album.Samples @ amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OBOZ6O
― StanM, Sunday, 11 January 2009 20:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
and the video's online too: http://www.feverray.com
Don't listen to those samples, they suck & you totally get the wrong impression about the songs
― StanM, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
so what's the album like then
― t_g, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
More beats than you would expect from those samples, but not as dancey as the knife - the single is a pretty good representation, I'd say.
― StanM, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
is it the handle or the blade?
/dadjoek
― some dude, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is pretty fuckin epic.
― cutty, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 01:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
Aye, it is.
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 07:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fantastic record. Slim odds anything will top it for me. So I guess I can just ignore the rest of 2009; that was fast. . .
Artists like this who're drawing from a deep musical well but don't come across as especially "indebted to" or even influenced by particular musical heroes/movements/etc. always impress me. They remind me it's possible neither to rehash nor attempt to reinvent the wheel, if your songwriting and sense for production is strong enough. I'm not saying I even dislike things that wear their influences on their sleeves--a well-done revival isn't an oxymoron to me (like Glass Candy, for example). The Portishead album from 2008 almost had that feeling, but occasionally you could really trainspot a "source" on a particular track. Unless you're just convinced any woman with a slightly odd voice and a trans-European accent sounds like Bjork, The Knife and now this just begin to transcend.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
obviously the brother is not a necessary element of the knife. did karin dreijer do the music?
― cutty, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
what i mean to say is that this may as well be a knife album. karin is the one who sends chills down my spine.
What a divine january surprise this is !
― Snowballing, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 14:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is way awesome. My sexist assumptions that Karin was just responsible for the vocals and Olof did the snyths, beats and programming seems to have been way off. Drum programming seems a bit simpler, but maybe just a stylistic choice. Music is as atmospheric as any Knife stuff. Track 2 reminded me slightly of Studio!
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 15:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
probably just the guitar, but whatever.
Digging the pan pipes on "Keep The Streets Empty For Me"
― Number None, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
haha one time i was watching that horrible terrible indie video show on the nyc channel and they were playing videos then asking school children what they thought - one kid said abt the knife "is this real music"
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
haven't put the cd on yet but the single is quite something.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 17:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
Artists like this who're drawing from a deep musical well but don't come across as especially "indebted to" or even influenced by particular musical heroes/movements/etc. always impress me
i agree - so many try to give this impression but there are so few who genuinely do seem to be complete one-offs, and the knife (or maybe karin dreijer) definitely fit.
re: production, it seems half of it is by christoffer berg and half by van rivers & subliminal kid (haven't heard those names before but berg apparently mixed the knife's work).
oh and since silent shout karin had her second child.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 18:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
here's a myspace for 'the subliminal kid' profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=19900707 (can't listen, i'm at work)
was nervous, because uh http://www.djspooky.com/
― goole, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 18:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
Fuck Buttons remix of If I Had A Heart
http://putonyoureargoggles.blogspot.com/2009/01/fever-rayfuck-buttons.html
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 19:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am actually getting really psyched for this.
― the ref (ed hochuli ha ha) (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 21:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is pretty awesome. It excised all the stuff I didn't like about the Knife, so I actually like it.
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 January 2009 04:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
i've listened once through, not closely enough, but i enjoyed it a lot. to me the thing that seemed to be lacking compared to the knife was something about the sound design maybe? but the basic songwriting was really really great.
― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Thursday, 15 January 2009 05:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
"who're"
― Cocktor Dassantino (k3vin k.), Thursday, 15 January 2009 06:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Dont know about the music, but the video for 'if i had a heart' is amazing:
― Moka, Thursday, 15 January 2009 06:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
Wish she did a video for every song on the album, then I might appreciate bit more what she's doing in there.
― Moka, Thursday, 15 January 2009 06:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
The album's sound made me remember Bel Canto's debut album, can't exactly put my finger on what it is
― StanM, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
so far I am liking this much better than The Knife (who always sounded a bit cheesy to me)
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
this album is affecting me in kate bush-like proportions
some songs could be on the dreaming
― cutty, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
that's exactly what i thought! and i never really listened to the knife.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
don't enjoy this as much as the knife, and as said above feel there's something lacking possible sound design or whatever (there's not much automation going on). Also possibly a bit more monothematic than the Knife's albums.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
but still awesome.
less arpeggios than silent shout, less pop than deep cuts
― cutty, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
hooray/about time.. it's been three years since silent shout!
― poortheatre, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
― poortheatre
fuck sake time flies.
― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Damn this is good. Growing on me too, still
― StanM, Friday, 16 January 2009 09:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure this is better than everything I heard last year (with, like, maybe the exception of the-dream, but i'm pretty sure this is even better than that album). So many textures and moods and hooks and sounds. I love her.
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Friday, 16 January 2009 17:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Kate Bush yes
listened again, and while a lot of it was really, really great, i still found it to be a little flat overall. certain parts (mostly vocals) risk becoming overused and gimmicky on this album, whereas i never would've thought that about the knife. that's not to say i don't enjoy it, i think i haven't listened to it in the right mood yet, so i don't wanna be too hard on it.
― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Friday, 16 January 2009 18:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm really, really enjoying this album. It sounds so lush, so rich in mood and atmosphere.
I think I can see why later aprpeggiator finds it "a little flat", or 'samey', perhaps, but right now that's just a huge plus for me. The sound just flows and flows, and there are no musical 'thorns' that suddenly break the spell.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 January 2009 11:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I hear "unified" here, not "same-y"
― Soundslike, Monday, 19 January 2009 14:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
man, this is h u g e
i am loving more and more, esp. the final 'keep the streets'/'coconut' couplet
― poortheatre, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 00:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
listened to this again and am enjoying it a lot more after i stopped comparing it to the knife
― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 04:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
the guitar on this is really nice
― caek, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
first song is amazing. enjoying it so far (halfway through)
― 6335, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
i think coconut is my favorite song on this right now
― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is truly dope
― shook pwns (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'm not hearing any differences between a Knife album and this, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. not sure why they felt the need to use a different name for this. great album though. i'm on my 2nd time through and haven't heard a bad track yet.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
feminism?
― Neil S, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
porntastic preview! anyway, fever ray make extremely sexy music, so the collaboration doesn't surprise me.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
LESBIAN =/= FEMINIST
― Moka, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh I've been looking for ages for porn that isn't in the crass phallocentric cumshot mould, AND has a sense of artistic visual or thematic narrative - amateur stuff sometimes but all too rarely fits the bill
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
in 2011, I pledge you, the public, more ILTMI/ILM crossover posts than you ever thought possible
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh ok I just noticed there's also heterosexual porn involved. Don't mind me. Still don't understand what makes it 'feminist' porn but I guess I have to see more than the trailer to catch on.
― Moka, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
feminist porn = porn made by feminists, iirc
― contenderizer, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
feminist = not like Brazzers
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
that manifesto is GREAT btw - the ppl gonna reclaim the 'porn' ('pornography' is a terrible and oppressive term anyway)
― Boo Radely and the Super Fury Aminal (acoleuthic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
manifesto is cool, but my eyes get all rolly when people selling something to me talk a "smash capitalism" line. and a lot of the stuff they're talking about applies to men as well as women. but in general, yeah.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 2 January 2011 20:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
More entertaining than Innocent Picture's Puzzy Power manifesto (1998), which Lars Von Trier had some involvement in. Candida Royalle seems to be falling behind in the manifesto races...
― The Fudderwacken: an exegesis (Sanpaku), Sunday, 2 January 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
The whole movie was produced by asking people to make short films of "feminist porn", though apparently different people had widely different ideas what that means - some of the shorts are more like sex-themed art movies than anything you would call "porn". And at least two of them (might've been more, I saw the movie a year ago, so my memory isn't really clear) have no sex at all, though they did feature some fetishistic activities. My favourite of the shorts was actually one of those, a semi-documentary about a female flasher.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 2 January 2011 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
new track from red riding hood soundtrack is pretty great - http://soundcloud.com/andrewdiego/04-the-wolf
i also found this!!!!
"So far the Fever Ray contribution has been slated as only a song, but there have been rumblings, from Hardwicke herself, that Andersson will make a cameo in the film as her Fever Ray persona. She will appear amongst the wreckage of the wolf effigy, with all the villagers dancing and chanting alongside her as she herself, clad in a harvest-style costume, performs her song. Hardwicke seems to be much inspired by Andersson’s style and music, using it to capture the suspenseful distortion of the tale as well as potentially inspire the highly stylized and striking costuming. The scene with Seyfried amidst the flaming wood pieces has her masked in a simplistic yet creepy and startling wolf mask. It seems part Venetian mask inspired but also a nod to Andersson’s quirky and dynamic style on stage."
http://redridinghoodmoviefans.blogspot.com/2010/11/fever-ray-contributes-song-to-red.html
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 18:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
How does that director keep getting so many artists tha seem reluctant to be featured on pubescent blockbusters on board with him?
― Moka, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
probably by being a woman
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
is she hot?
― Moka, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&hs=PU7&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=catherine%20hardwicke&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=vi&biw=1096&bih=619
you tell me
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I don't think her being a woman has anything to do with it. My question remains.
― Moka, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
a lot of artists might be reluctant to be featured on pubescent blockbusters but id guess theyre a lot less reluctant about a shitload of money off of those movies
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 16:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Exposure to millions of teenage goths will probably help sales of Fever Ray records as well.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 16:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha yeah god forbid pubescents listen to fever ray, what could they possibly find of value in gothy persona-driven synth pop
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
particularly pubescents interested in gothy wolfman movies
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
really cool song.. almost makes me think the scene could be a good one
― rockapads, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh shit the opening alone is wau
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
turns out the cameo rumor is untrue:
http://feverray.com/2010/11/18/new-fever-ray-music-to-feature-in-upcoming-film-red-riding-hood/
*To clarify some incorrect information that has been circulating on the web: there won’t in fact be a cameo performance from Karin Dreijer Andersson / Fever Ray in the film, and Karin co-wrote the song with her Fever Ray band members - Christoffer Berg, Van Rivers, The Subliminal Kid & Liliana Zavala - with no involvement from any other party.
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
it'd be fucking awesome if fever ray became some sort of goth teenage girl pin-up
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
im sure she already is on some small scale!
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyway as bummed as i am that shes not going to be in the red riding hood movie i think its clear that someone needs to cast her as the witch queen in a wicker man-style pagan horror flick set somewhere in rural sweden
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
wasn't that one of her videos?
yeah i meant on a large scale! fever ray for twilight cameo! no scratch that TWILIGHT LOVE INTEREST
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes, but i want a feature film
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
SO: Unlike Twilight, whose fans were very invested in the original source material, it seems you have more room for creative interpretation for a story like Red Riding Hood. What are some examples of your own personal interpretation as director?
CH: For the celebration scene, I was inspired by my experiences at Burning Man – which has its roots in medieval, pagan rituals. Our Music Supervisor Brian Reitzall (Lost in Translation, Virgin Suicides) hired Swedish band Fever Ray to create a song, then choreographer Sarah Elgart created a dance that felt ancient, but very sexy. We basically created a medieval RAVE!
― goole, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 17:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
DANGER WILL ROBINSON
― goth barbershop quartet (DJP), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was inspired by my experiences at Burning Man
NOPE
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh i'm sorry did you think the gothy red riding hood movie was going to be good
― goole, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
well... no, but it wasn't Twilight and Amanda Seyfried > Kristen Stewart so I was considering seeing it
right now the self-evidently terrible movie I am dying to see is SUCKER PUNCH
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i have to admit i am suckerpunch-curious myself
― goole, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
tbh I don't know when Carla Gugnino replace Milla Jovovich as "marginal actress whose every movie I will someday see" but there you go
also it has a Real World alum in the cast (Jamie Chung from RW:San Diego)
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 18:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
― goole, Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i expect this from perry but you... you sicken me
― max, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
what, there's a big samurai robot or something
― goole, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 19:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
hot girls beating up comic book shit, what a terrible premise for a movie
(yes, I know it is actually terrible, but it is also something I will avidly watch; signed, the dude who saw "Catwoman" and "Ultraviolet" in the theater)
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
This party scene is even worse than the one in the Mateix
although dance floor lez up scene is hilar
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Sunday, 8 January 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
"keep the streets empty for me" is still astonishingly great especially when it's snowing
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, Fever Ray is more or less winter music. I hope there'll be a follow-up to the debut some day, I never cared about The Knife (as good as they are) quite as much as I care about FR.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/fever-ray-fever-ray-round-34-nicks-choice/
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
Nice one! My (betterc articulated) thoughts exactly
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
this part of 'dry and dusty' ftw
Work as I've been toldIn return I get moneySmall feet in your hallAnd I long for every moment
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 9 March 2013 00:49 (2 months ago) Permalink
Otm
― Darth Icky (DJP), Saturday, 9 March 2013 01:32 (2 months ago) Permalink
God yes. That's the exact moment that made me fall in love with this album.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:55 (2 months ago) Permalink
Small feet in your hall?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 9 March 2013 08:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
That's my favorite song on the album.
― She Got the Shakes, Saturday, 9 March 2013 14:42 (2 months ago) Permalink