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

Good listen.

good time to be alive when there's a new fever ray album

This country makes it hard to fuck

oh wow, it is on Spotify. the last album was one of my favorite albums ever.

This is very good btw.

is sounding knife-esque supposed to be odd for a fever ray cut

I was under the impression the S/T was entirely self-produced so this is all news for me.

The new album is almost entirely great but I am not sure about 'This Country' at all. There's a kind of freewheeling Jlin beat on 'An Itch' that made me think of how awesome a collaboration between those two artists would be.

This does sound different to the others though, the sound palette is similar but only a couple of tracks have that cavernous sense of space that I associate with Silent Shout and the first Fever Ray record. That's as likely to be a mastering issue I guess but you really notice it on 'Red Trails', which really does have that quality and sounds like it could have been on the S/T. 'Mama's Hand' too.

S/T production was C. Berg (who had done a "Like a Pen" remix, and wasn't particularly audible), and Henrik von Sivers and Peder Mannerfelt (who were pretty audible). I rated Mannerfelt's Controllihg Body last year (it featured vocals from Glasser and the feel was not unlike later Andy Stott.

great record, dig every song

this rules (of course)

I am 2 minutes into this and it is glorious

i am about 30 seconds behind you and yessss

I have heard about 30 choppy seconds because the wifi at the place I was yesterday was beyond shitty but those sure were 30 great seconds

Yes, Falling, Yes

switching to headphones

I am glad this isn't simply S/T Part II (which would have been awesome, don't get me wrong)

glad i switched to headphones because i am that kind of nervous person who worries that the neighbor kids will hear me blasting "this country makes it hard to fuck" over and over. i mean they have to learn sometime i guess, but not from me, not today. this is a message i can connect with more directly if it's piped directly into my ears, i think.

"This Country" is the only thing here I'm not wild about so far

I’m disappointed this isn’t s/t part 2. She lost the mystery that made that album special. Never cared for the abrasiveness of the (late period) Knife. But judging from this thread, I’m in the minority

I fucking adore this and I am a little saddened that I can't in good conscience play it for my kids because, while I think they would love it, I also don't want them shouting "I WANT TO RUN MY FINGER UP YOUR PUSSY" at their teachers/random passers-by/my wife/other family members/me.

xp: Given that Fever Ray was already heading in a bombastic direction with the material that came out post S/T, I think this is a great synthesis of that and the sound palettes The Knife played around with on Shaking the Habitual, tied to a songwriting style that evokes both the S/T and The Knife's pre-Silent Shout work.

I’m also disappointed that it’s not s/t 2. The videos for If I Had a Heart and When I Grow Up were my favorite videos that year and the whole album felt too homogenic for me on first listens but eventually became one of my favorites that year.

this is more like silent shout pt2... it is odd that it sounds more like the knife than the knife itself after that album. That said I also love silent shout so it’s just a matter of accepting we might never hear a proper sequel to the s/t and take this for what it is.

idk it feels like a cool synthesis of basically everything Karin's worked on in a nice tidy package, albeit a little crasser than usual

I just can't imagine not being thrilled by that voice over these massive instrumentals

This is great. She is great.

mama's hand is really something else, too! i think Falling is my other early fave.

You can hear S/T Fever Ray very strongly on "Mustn't Hurry" but it's littered throughout this album.

the cover's atrocious

Agree, all of the visual assets accompanying this release have been hideous.

ha i really like it

spookier colour background maybe needed

I like the heavy metal logo but yeah the album cover and the video released so far is awful.

Red Trails and Mama’s Hand are my favorite and also the ones I find closer to the s/t sound. I’m not feeling the rest at the moment.

I love the video, not sure how I feel about the cover and am really hit or miss with the LP so far. I mean, her at her worst is better than most people's best so I'm happy to have it. I certainly think it reminds me most of Deep Cuts, in the way they both sort of reference different styles of contemporary dance music and is a sort of subversive pop music.

I haven't heard this yet, but I welcome the fact that it doesn't sound like the last Fever Ray album.

Love how relentlessly rhythmic this album is.

Ironically large swathes remind me more of Olof’s remix of Emmanuel Jal’s “Kuar” more than either The Knife or prior Fever Ray.

First impression two minutes in: FUCK YEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kkvnNBbfoA

fav jam on this album

first track on the new one carries on a similar drone to if i had a heart, but instead of wanting more she's tapped out emotionally. feels like this album utilizes a lot of similar sounds to the first one but in a more kinetic way and less comforting. really great.

2018 Euro tour dates on feverray.com !

Loving the tour poster! 15 March in Brussels!

fuck fuck fuck - pre-sale tix sold out after 30 mins

that was only on the label site. pre-presale. the regular presale starts on Friday 11am, abconcerts.be

the date here is at the Olympia, a 3000 seat theater. bigger than I would expected?

oh, just 2000 maybe. I dunno, I'm going for the first time there for Paramore in January.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/18/fever-ray-pleasure-patriarchy-political-revolution-plunge-karin-dreijer

Great interview

It really is.

My kids don’t learn about non-heterosexual sex in school. My youngest came home and was like: ‘Mum, how do girls have sex? Is it like pussy against pussy?’ And I said: ‘Yeah, you can do that’, and that was it. All good. It’s a key thing for human nature to know how to experience pleasure.”

<3

Related: Sweden invents a word for girls’ genitals equivalent to ‘willy’ for boys

“It came from a gender equality perspective. Boys have a word for it, and girls don’t, and that made me mad,” Kosztovics says. “A friend told me she knew someone who used the word snippa, so I started practising it in front of the mirror.” In 2000 she began promoting it, visiting 50 of Malmö’s then 200 nursery schools, and after that it simply took off.

“I think the snippa initiative was a big success story in Sweden,” says Karin Milles, an academic at Södertorn University in Flemingsberg, who researches feminist projects of “verbal hygiene”. “We hadn’t had much feminist language planning before. It’s the first and I think the major initiative besides hen [a gender-neutral word for ‘he’ and ‘she’].”

The word was already used to describe a small jug for cream and a type of boat, and a small minority used it for vagina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1pEZSCcfAc

Loving the hard soca vibes on 'IDK about you'

yeah - the intro sounds like a lost golden-era Missy cut

https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/fever-ray-explains-how-ball-gags-leather-fetishes-and-weird-memes-inspired-her-new-album

Martin Falck: It was funny to see how queer Mr. Freeze was. He was so scary! But here he has this silk bow tie! He sort of looks like Uncle Fester. And then also he’s not super evil. He just likes diamonds. But the world doesn’t wanna give him diamonds, so he needs to freeze everyone.

Karin Dreijer: I really loved all the Batman films.