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

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.

Generally I'm all for dance remixes, but somehow I feel Fever Ray's tunes don't bend into dance tracks that easily. Especially if they're done in that irritating indie electro style.

I generally like irritating electro indie remixes, but I like these original tracks too much to want to hear them remixed. (Unless the remix would be excellent and completely different from and only use a tiny part of the original)

I don't know who's Rex the Dog

WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

Hmm, according to Discogs Rex the Dog is the same dude who did that "Son of a Gun" tune back in the mid-90s. That was a nice tune, but this one isn't.

A less obviously disco beat and I would be all over this like gangbusters.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:45 (5 years ago)

What's that supposed to mean?

it means you posted in that thread you fake tuomas

You seriously expect me to remember every thread I posted to five years ago?

I didn't know who Rex the Dog was in 2004 either. Looking at that thread, I just made a couple of general comments about the anonymity of techno producers. If you can actually remember all the names of all the artists mentioned in all the threads you've ever posted to, good for you.

getting some chuckles from this:

He's basically just sped up the tune and added some extra drums and irritating electro whines there

Well that's what he did.

If you can actually remember all the names of all the artists mentioned in all the threads you've ever posted to, good for you.

i can and thank you

Okay, post them here.

usually i won't pop in a thread about an artist i don't know, or won't remember, or won't bother to actually seek out to hear what they sounds like, just to make banal comments and bring it up again five years later

Why can't I be serious? Call me an idealist, but sometimes I miss the days when electronic music had nothing to do with the rockist star cult, when all (well, almost all) that mattered was the music. I still don't know what most of my favourite artists look like. Or who they really are, for that matter.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:45 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you are dropping fucking pearls of wisdom right there

I didn't bring it up, you and Sic did.

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I merely mentioned that I don't know who Rex the Dog is (which was true), but you had to bring up some 5-year old thread just to make a pointless snark at me.

some 5-year old thread about rex the dog

i didn't bring it up btw

I don't know who's Rex the Dog

WHO IS REX THE DOG? (ideas, NOW)

― cutty, 22. kesäkuuta 2009 23:54 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was merely pointing you to a thread of other people wondering WHO IS REX THE DOG?