join me in anticipating musics by FEVER RAY (aka one half of the knife)

last friday:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/multimedia/archive/00150/Fever-Ray_150678c.jpg

there was some...thing prancing around with what looked like some kind of staff. spent most of the set trying to figure that out.

some kind of pagan dance as in the wicker man?

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?

Or alternatively, on a giant fuck-off sound system?

on good headphones it controls your mind.

but yeah, i get more out of this on headphones than I do on my (good) computer speakers.

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)

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 cries
I haven't slept since summer

oh how i try
I leave the TV on
and the radio on"

lissvik remix of 'when i grow up' is great

not sure this will work

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2342023&id=38532258901

this?

haha yeah ;-) - I wanted to post that creepy pic in that press clipping

this record is awesome

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.

that is as wrong!

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...

playing in july at shepherd's bush

webster hall nyc this fall. no dates/tickets yet

I'll be at the SF show. Going to stare at the screen until the tix become available.

all north american tour dates announced,
http://feverray.com/shows/

counting the seconds until the tickets go on sale

jinx

kinda

sf tickets going on sale when?

dunno yet, but it's at the regency

the website for that place is bizarre. have you seen a show there?

agreed about the website, all ballroomish-looking, i've never heard of shows there

Saw MIA with Rye Rye there in 2005. Sounded horrible but I dunno if it artist or venue or both to blame.

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?

1) ur a goth 2) have u seen the music videos

1) lol touche
2) nope

Electronic music scares a sensitive indie soul. (Or not.)

check out the vids dude

Yeah, there's a high quality version of "If I Had a Heart" on the CD. If that doesn't creep you out, nothing will.

I don't think Fever Ray is downright scary though, but there's some definitely creepy moments in the music, especially if you listen to the lyrics.

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

this album is just ok (fine morning music, actually), but it's about as scary as runny mascara.

The bits of it that aren't creepy are actually quite warm and intimate in a weird way. Like being sung to sleep by a malfunctioning fembot from the future.

tix on sale now... see you in chicago!

wtf where?

nvm on sale sunday for SF

Top tracks:

"Seven"
"Concrete Walls"
"Keep the Streets Empty For Me"

honorable mention to the two singles and "Dry and Dusty"

i am all about if i had a heart, when i grow up, coconut, and keep the streets.....

very even album though.

Yeah, I wouldn't call any of the tracks weak.

So far this is my favorite album of the year.

Also I still don't get creepy from this; Matt's "love songs from a fembot" comment seems very OTM.

not listened to this much after enjoying it quite a bit at first. Seeing Fever Ray live later this month tho! :D

i sense some low-key domestic dread in a lot of it. not nec. creepy but definitely "unsettled"

my attitude to this is pretty much exactly like my attitude to 'Third'

Really? To me, Third sounds much sadder and more desperate than Fever Ray. Despite the latent creepiness FR is definitely more hopeful.

Yeah I can't really bear listening to 'Third' whereas this one feels like being slightly demented from lack of sleep, at 5AM in a cosy wood cabin.

I could listen to both endlessly (and have over the past week, interspersed with the new Prodigy and YYYs albums)

Yeah I can't really bear listening to 'Third' whereas this one feels like being slightly demented from lack of sleep, at 5AM in a cosy wood cabin.

interesting - i read somewhere (maybe upthread?) that karin wrote lots of the material when her kid woke her up at 5am and she couldn't go back to sleep