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

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.

that she's even bothering to release at least 3 singles from this is kinda odd. for the record the album peaked at #90 in UK chart.

10 tracks = 10 singles = 10 videoclips = 1 DVD ?

(+ 2 or 3 remixes each?)

Yeah, it would be cool if she'd do an full-length movie based on the album, like Daft Punk's Interstella 5555. The two videos so far are so great I want too see more of that.

silent shout had a million singles too IIRC - obv she just likes making videos and getting remixes.

Couple of UK dates announced:

http://feverray.com/2009/06/05/uk-tour-july-2009-tickets/

Thanks for the heads up - will get some tickets for the M/cr show later.

Man this is a great album. I know I've been saying it since the beginning of the thread, but I still think it is.

Triangle Walks video (directed by Max)

http://vimeo.com/5215214

when is she gonna do a proper European tour?!

Looks pretty, but I think it lacks the cool visual ideas and hints of a larger backstory that made the previous two videos so good. The masks and costumes still tie it thematically to them, though.

I haven't yet seen Fever Ray live (can't wait until next month when both FR and Grace Jones are gonna play at a local festival), but from what I've heard those lamps also appear in their live show.

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Dunno about an European tour, but she's been gigging actively, hasn't she? Her show in Helsinki next month is already the second one here since the album came out. Though of course the distance probably makes it easier to have gigs here.

rex the dog and karin should work with each other exclusively
together = gold. not together = hit&miss

http://www.prefixmag.com/media/fever-ray/triangle-walks-rex-the-dog-remix-radio-edit-mp3/29772/

is downloadble on popjustice: http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3762&Itemid=206

I don't know who's Rex the Dog, but to me that remix doesn't sound very good. He's basically just sped up the tune and added some extra drums and irritating electro whines there. It takes away a lot the mystique of the original but doesn't add anything particularly interesting or original to it.