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

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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

space cowboy (san frandisco), Friday, 8 May 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link

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 touche
2) 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

two weeks pass...

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.

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

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

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

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

y'know, i did think it was a joke. but then it just kept going and it never really got funny, so i wasn't sure if it was just a bizarre joke or what. i figured either way my post could be taken as a continuation of the joke. but i just outed myself. no offense max, most of yr joeks are v funny.

i should've just said: did you really think i was serious lame-o?

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 3 June 2009 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link

It really sucks that Charles Burns is trying to take credit. He's already famous, why else does he want?

ya'll are the ones who don't know things (Z S), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link

WHO WANTS TO KNOW
WHO WANTS TO KNOW

hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i think wikipedia's right abt charles burns doing the cover art - http://www.mander.nu/?p=465

just sayin, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link

It's not Charles Burns, the illustrator is credited in the sleeve, it's some Swedish bloke. Unless Burns did the illustration under a Swedish pseudonym, which would be kinda odd.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link

woops sorry i meant 'wikipedia's not right...'

just sayin, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link

thanks for calling my art a "joke" karl

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link

great to post on such a supportive board

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link


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