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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burns_(cartoonist)

"He produced the artwork for the debut album of Fever Ray."

WTFUUUUUUUUUUU?!

oops

Did you really think it was m

Yep, that's our Max's real name.

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?

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

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vcFl3uWi0KI/SKJxW6-LW5I/AAAAAAAAAY4/WSSricUSgGc/s320/jimmy.jpg

"Are you Fever Ray?"

WHO WANTS TO KNOW
WHO WANTS TO KNOW

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

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.

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

thanks for calling my art a "joke" karl

great to post on such a supportive board

Max, is Martin Ander your real name or is it just a pseudonym?

max, yr art is wonderful, even if it is a joke.

3rd single: "Triangle Walks"

I am kind of surprised it wasn't "Dry and Dusty" given the general accessibility level of the first two singles.

Triangle Walks is my 4th favourite thing on this (after Seven, I'm Not Done and Dry And Dusty).

I would've thought "Seven" was the next single, it's certainly the catchiest song on the album besides "When I Grow Up". Plus it's also the best song.