Fever Ray is this month's CD in the Rough Trade Album club (and comes with a bonus CD of remixes by Fuck Buttons, one called "Van Rivers Dark Sails on the Horizon Mix," and one called "Remembered by the Subliminal Kid").
There is a leaflet/interview thing with it where she's asked to list her influences on the album. Some interesting choices:
1) Fugazi - "13 Songs" (!!!!!)"A brilliant band, and a brilliant collection of powerful, emotional songs. It's real and honest and raw and angry but also sensitive and kind of bruised, not macho."
2) Tomahawk - "Anonymous""I think Mike Patton has been doing very interesting stuff for a while now, and this record was one we listened to a lot when we were finishing the album. It had a good impact on the record."
3) Fuck Buttons - "Street Horrsing""They did a remix of the first single, and I love it and I love this album, they are a great band. Very exciting."
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Monday, 6 April 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty excellent show tonight (supporting also great Royksopp but FR have the EDGE). strict renditions from the album (which still hasn't engrained enough for me to recognise everything), but with added pretty lasers. was too high up to really see Karin and her band tho, and she only sang one song with Royksopp (Tricky Tricky) which was disappointing (Drecker sang What Else Is There and This Must Be It well but hmph).
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Saturday, 11 April 2009 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't think you could see karin or her band from anywhere - you definitely never saw their faces. unless you got right up close to the stage, maybe. totally creepy and awesome. that gig pushed me off the fence into LOVING her music, anyway. i was wrong about not remembering any of it b/c i recognised every song within the first few bars. 'keep the streets empty for me' was incredible.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 April 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw her/them friday in Rotterdam - fantastic show. Shaded lamps + lasers + carefully placed mirrors = magic. Also the costumes looked great but it was a bit too dimly lit to fully appreciate those. Looked a bit like Pirates of the Carribean extras :)They played two songs I didn't recognize (and I know the album by heart). One with a chorus with "I'm a stranger" lyrics (barely understandable through the vox-modifications) and a short piece near the end that was some sort of interlude I think. Highly recommended!
― willem, Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, I just read a review that said they covered Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Stranger than Kindness".
― willem, Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
That sounds great Willem, makes me feel even more sad I couldn't attend.
Was there a merch table?
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 12 April 2009 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
there was at the RFH, half FR half 'Sopp
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 12 April 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
charles gibson introducing this fever ray segment is pretty hilarious. also the pictures moving to the music http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7271349
― LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ODE TO JOY EURO TRANCE REMIX (Future_Perfect), Sunday, 12 April 2009 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey Gerard, too bad you couldn't make it, would've been great to get to talk again.
There was a merch table (Plato) and I had set my hopes on the FR LP but no... Just a poster, the cd and a shirt. Bummer.
― willem, Sunday, 12 April 2009 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link
You can tell that Gibson loathes introducing the weekly pitchfork segment in every bone of his body.
― ZS1983 (Z S), Sunday, 12 April 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
really?!?! that sounds like possibly the best thing ever.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
"Stranger than Kindness"
The instant I read this, I could hear it in my head.
― bendy, Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I checked the lyrics and yeah that must've been the song I didn't recognize. From one of the Cave albums I don't happen to own. It was slow, sludgy almost (I remember thinking something like an industrial Dead Can Dance) - brooding.
xpost - haha. ^^does it sound like that? ;-)
― willem, Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
it's maybe my favourite nick cave song. i gotta hear their version!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
― willem, Sunday, April 12, 2009 6:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Would've loved to have talked to you again as well man! (if I pm you through ilx, will it reach you?).A 'Stranger than Kindness' cover... WANT.
There's not enough live footage of FR around on the internets. I did stumble upon this video though. Must be the YouTube version of fanfic, innit? Still, well played...
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 April 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Every fibre of my being is screaming for me to go 'lol goth' but actually, I bet that was incredible.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 April 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Not really recognizeable, but this sounds like it could be Stranger Than Kindness
― StanM, Monday, 13 April 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yup, that's it.
― stirmonster, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
wow that's my favorite Nick Cave song. When is she gonna do a proper tour?
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 07:48 (fifteen years ago) link
last friday:http://www.volkskrant.nl/multimedia/archive/00150/Fever-Ray_150678c.jpg
― willem, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
there was some...thing prancing around with what looked like some kind of staff. spent most of the set trying to figure that out.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
some kind of pagan dance as in the wicker man?
― willem, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I bought the album so have only heard it on my record player, and I have this nagging feeling that there's more going on sonically than is really take-innable in a house, with sounds floating through the air, intermixed with the activities and sounds of everything else. Does anyone think this is true? Have most of the rest of you mainly heard this on headphones?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Or alternatively, on a giant fuck-off sound system?
on good headphones it controls your mind.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
but yeah, i get more out of this on headphones than I do on my (good) computer speakers.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it's just because it's the most upbeat but 'Seven' is my favourite track on here
Scuba mix of 'When I Grow Up' is nice (ordinary 1 bassdrum per 4 beats dubstep tho)
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been listening to this for a couple weeks on comp speakers, listening to it now stoned on new cheap headphones and it's so much more magnificent
Concrete Walls is so creepy when you listen to the lyrics:
"I live between concrete walls when I took her up she was so warm
I live between concrete walls In my arms she was so warm
Eyes are open and mouth criesI haven't slept since summer
oh how i try I leave the TV on and the radio on"
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Thursday, 16 April 2009 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
lissvik remix of 'when i grow up' is great
― NI, Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:11 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure this will work
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2342023&id=38532258901
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
this?
― StanM, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:33 (fifteen years ago) link
haha yeah ;-) - I wanted to post that creepy pic in that press clipping
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 16 April 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
this record is awesome
― Michael B, Saturday, 18 April 2009 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM. I don't think I've ever been as wrong about a record on initial listen - I now prefer it to Silent Shout I think.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Sunday, 19 April 2009 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
that is as wrong!
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 19 April 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Not been confirmed by the website yet, but apparently just been added to the bill at the Brighton Loop festival.
Kinda curious, but kinda broke...
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
playing in july at shepherd's bush
― just sayin, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
webster hall nyc this fall. no dates/tickets yet
― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 8 May 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll be at the SF show. Going to stare at the screen until the tix become available.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 8 May 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
all north american tour dates announced,http://feverray.com/shows/
counting the seconds until the tickets go on sale
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
jinx
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda
sf tickets going on sale when?
― The Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno yet, but it's at the regency
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
the website for that place is bizarre. have you seen a show there?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 8 May 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
agreed about the website, all ballroomish-looking, i've never heard of shows there
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Friday, 8 May 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw MIA with Rye Rye there in 2005. Sounded horrible but I dunno if it artist or venue or both to blame.
― The Macallan 18 Year, Friday, 8 May 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I just got this and I'm digging it, but is there something wrong with me in that I don't really find anything sinister or scary about this?
― Unclench, y'all, unclench (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
1) ur a goth 2) have u seen the music videos
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
1) lol touche2) nope
― Unclench, y'all, unclench (HI DERE), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:17 (fifteen years ago) link