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
Electronic music scares a sensitive indie soul. (Or not.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
check out the vids dude
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:27 (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
this album is just ok (fine morning music, actually), but it's about as scary as runny mascara.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
tix on sale now... see you in chicago!
― LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ODE TO JOY EURO TRANCE REMIX (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 14 May 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf where?
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Thursday, 14 May 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
nvm on sale sunday for SF
― space cowboy (san frandisco), Thursday, 14 May 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Top tracks:
"Seven""Concrete Walls""Keep the Streets Empty For Me"
honorable mention to the two singles and "Dry and Dusty"
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i am all about if i had a heart, when i grow up, coconut, and keep the streets.....
very even album though.
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I wouldn't call any of the tracks weak.
So far this is my favorite album of the year.
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i sense some low-key domestic dread in a lot of it. not nec. creepy but definitely "unsettled"
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
my attitude to this is pretty much exactly like my attitude to 'Third'
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Really? To me, Third sounds much sadder and more desperate than Fever Ray. Despite the latent creepiness FR is definitely more hopeful.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I could listen to both endlessly (and have over the past week, interspersed with the new Prodigy and YYYs albums)
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burns_(cartoonist)
"He produced the artwork for the debut album of Fever Ray."
WTFUUUUUUUUUUU?!
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 3 June 2009 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
oops
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 3 June 2009 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Did you really think it was m
Yep, that's our Max's real name.
― StanM, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link