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

so is it a woodprint?

no its a tattoo

ah clever

nice work on the single cover too,max
http://feverray.com/wp-content/uploads/trianglewalks-artwork-360x363.jpg

wait the house is half submerged in water but there's still smoke coming out of the chimney? c'mon that would never happen

it would if the house is filled with dry ice

AH C'MAAAHHHHNNNNN

or the water has just reached the flames... could be steam

max can u weigh in

Or if that's not water, but oil. -> fire -> smoke.

The giant underwater flashlight shining upwards still works as well, so it's probably not water.

thats not steam its actually a fishs tale from the giant fish what leaped into the chimney

it's oil, look, all the plants are dead!

and the bird's feathers are all sticking together, which is why it isn't flying!

stan

did u draw the picture

i think not

duhhhhhhh

the giant fish what leaped into the chimney

serious lols

ok, sorry max - it's just that you've put so much possibilities into your art, it's hard for the viewer not to try and find their own interpretation:-(

what a disaster for the viewer

Tonight at the Shepherds Bush Empire! I am excited.

Saw her/them in Bristol on Monday, very good indeed.

jealous

Saw them live yesterday at a local festival, pretty cool gig. They started with "If I Had a Heart" and ended with "Coconut", and they didn't speak anything before or between songs, nor was there an encore. I thought that was kinda fitting, the gig was very intense and hypnotic, so shouting "Hello Helsinki!" or something like that between songs would've ruined the atmosphere. They just entered the stage in darkness, and left the same way. The stage was lighted with a bunch of flickering old lamps, and the whole band were wearing weird theatrical costumes thats could've been straight out of their videos. Their lighting choices made the costumes kinda hard to see, it took me half the gig to realize that the reason I couldn't see the guitarist/keyboardist dude's face was because he had some sort of black mask. Karin was wearing a very freaky, massive, shaman-like hood and cape, but you could only see it in flashes of light, so she looked more like some formless monster. I guess that was intentional, it certainly made the performance more creepy. Then at some point she took the cape off, and her face was painted white, except for a V-shaped black pattern in the middle. She shook her hands and body like she was in a trance or something, there was definitely some sort of shaman vibe going on.

The music wasn't that different from what's on record, but there were a few changes made to the arrangements and some new sounds added, so it was different enough to keep it interesting. They didn't play the whole album, but they did do two songs that aren't on it. One was more fast and aggressive than anything on the album, it sounded almost like industrial, and the other one was a stripped-down ballad that showcased what a great voice Karin has. I have no idea if these songs were covers or new material. I thought they weren't gonna do all those freaky vocal effects from the album, but they did, and they even added some new effects to a couple of songs; at some point her voice was ran through a a high-pitched filter that made her shriek like a witch. All in all I thought it was a very good performance, they've certainly taken some effort to make their gigs have the same sort of spooky and trance-like and evocative vibe as on the album.

yeah that's exactly how it went down when i saw them a few months ago. i was just frustrated because i was high up and far back and couldn't really see anything but the lamps and dope lasers.

Some people who'd seen their previous gig in Helsinki told me they have a cool stage show, so I got as close to the stage as possible to see them properly. I guess their gig is not very audience-friendly for larger venues and festivals, can't imagine people at the back seeing anything but light and shadows.

yea in london i was on the ground floor at the back + couldnt really see anything. also, the bass obscured a lot of the music :(

o and tuomas 1 of the songs they played that you didnt recognise was prob their cover of nick caves 'stranger than kindness'

It's kinda weird, obviously they've put a lot of effort into their costumes, but the lighting of their show doesn't really allow the audience to see them properly. Like, the percussionist was wearing some sort of a red cape or something, but you could barely see him. The only one you could really see was the laptop guy, and that's because the laptop screen provided some extra light for him. :)

i think the (lack of) lighting thing just doesn't work really - like you say why bother with costumes when most people can hardly see them.

I saw them in Brighton, and thought the low lighting made it all the more atmospheric. I did have a good view though.

I saw them at Bristol and was pretty much right at the front of the half-full venue. Didn't have a clue what that headdress looked like til I got home and did a GIS.

One of the musicians looked like one of Emperor Palpatine's sidekicks in everyone's favourite Star Wars movie, Phantom Menace. I remember her headdress being a bit like a West African/ Fijian type thing iirc.

lol yeah i thought exactly the same thing about the Star Wars look

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/feverrayseven452.jpg

from Pitchfork today:

Fever Ray's self-titled debut LP-- it's the gift that keeps on giving dark and dance-y goodness to the art-riddled goth in all of us. The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson is set to release her album's fourth single, "Seven", on 12" and digital formats on October 5 in the UK courtesy of Rabid/Cooperative. It'll be backed by remixes from "Day 'N' Nite" redoers Crookers, Brazil party starters CSS, Berlin techno dude Marcel Dettmann, D.C. click-clacker Martyn, Nic Chacona, Real Daniel, and Ghostly International artist Seth Troxler.

In addition, the Fever Ray album is being granted one of those instant reissues the kids are so crazy about nowadays. Fever Ray-- The Double Disc Edition hits October 12 and is padded with two covers-- Vashti Bunyan's "Been Here Before" and Nick Cave and Anita Lane's "Stranger Than Kindness"-- and a DVD featuring all of the album's superb videos thus far (if you haven't seen them, please do yourself a favor and head over to Pitchfork.tv right now) along with a new one for "Seven" directed by Johan Renck, whose music video resume includes Madonna's "Hung Up", Bat for Lashes' "Daniel", and Beyoncé's "Me, Myself and I". It should slay.

Fever Ray takes her heavily-costumed live show to North America next month. We can't wait. Dates here.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on August 25, 2009

That's a great cover. Looks like max's work, judging by the cover of "Triangle Walks".

good job max

there was also this:

http://www.deftp.co.uk/fever-ray/myspace/ifihadaheart_400.jpg

and

http://www.betterthandisco.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/feverray.jpg

wow! that last one...

In addition, the Fever Ray album is being granted one of those instant reissues the kids are so crazy about nowadays.
I wonder if this is ironic.

And it's true these covers are all fantastic.

as always guys, thanks for the kind words

this just out:

LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED TOUR 7 INCH
Very limited edition numbered tour 7 inch.

Fever Ray with Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid.
Contains two cover versions that Fever Ray perform on tour.

1. Stranger than Kindness by Nick Cave and Anita Lane
2. Here Before by Vashti Bunyan.

http://feverray.sandbag.uk.com/Content/26.jpg

the martyn remix of "seven" is so great, that bassline!

thanks baad, ordered the 7" right away

"Coconut" is a killer ending track, huh

this album is having a second wind for me - i'm pretty confident this will be my album of the year

I'm anticipating listening to this a lot as the nights start drawing in...

I am surprised that it's taken this long to release Seven as a single. It's a fantastic song, probably my favourite off the album.

Yeah, totally; I was convinced it or "Dry and Dusty" was going to be the third single.