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

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.

Sweden. Fucking... Sweden.

They get Fever Ray, we get... La Roux and Florence and the fucking Machine.

My head is in a claustrophobic place right now that this album totally matches. I want to listen to this album when it's cold, all wrapped up in bed with the lights out.

This probably says more about me than the album (speaking of which, isn't she Finnish?) but I don't find it so much creepy or claustrophobic as I find it coldly comforting and wistful, dipping into whimsy from time to time; I have a similar reaction to The Knife, only instead of cold distance I get tons and tons of warmth.

She's not Finnish, she's Swedish. She's got a recognizable Scandinavian accent in her English that reminds me a bit of Björk's accent. A Finnish accent sounds rather different.

oops, I've been telling ppl the wrong thing for a while then

It sounds totally claustrophobic to me, but probably because the lyrics remind me of the desperate tweets of friends trapped in apartments with small children endlessly hungry and demanding attention and more more more. But that could just be me and my fears.

The 7" cover upthread is from a collection of photographs of the Kwakiutl and Navajo tribes taken by Edward S. Curtis around 1914. I love them, I uploaded almost all of them at flickr some months ago you can see them here if you're interested (mixed with a bunch of crap I thought interesting at the time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11840520@N04/sets/72157601576405206/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2652408564_ec937d726f.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/2652407582_25fe3cbc0c.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2652408242_3dde8cda75.jpg

Max's covers are the best tho

Yes, the artwork is amazing.

I didn't know Max also shot Indians! Impressive!

that's how the west was won

the preferred nomenclature is "native american", tuomas.

Vashti cover live (via P4K):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskaHWABWyc

Is this Max's work as well?

http://i29.tinypic.com/2zrgkf6.jpg

looks like it tbh, all the signature trademarks are there

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

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 10:00 (1 week ago)

bears repeating

http://i31.tinypic.com/10hm2yu.jpg http://i31.tinypic.com/10hm2yu.jpg

sorry :-(

suggest bearn

at this moment "Coconut" is the greatest song ever recorded

just for the record i never once shot an indian, or a native american

LOVE this. Still. Freezing cold but warmly enveloping you at the simultaneously.

Um. Try to not read that "at the" there :-)

Still one of the best cd's of the year. I've listened to this more now than "Silent Shout".

Front row at Webster Hall last night. Fucking amazing. The most inspiring thing I have seen in at least 3 years and probably one of the top 3 or 4 gigs I have ever been to. A LOT of other bands have a LOT to answer for. I mean, FR is an electronic act and yet the show, even just on a musical level, was more powerful than that of most bands, even though the latter have more flexibility in terms of improvisation, covers, etc.

As intimate as the music is, it REALLY benefitted from a large soundsystem. Granted, I was right in front of the subs, but that was the most bass pressure I have ever felt. The costumes, the lasers, etc., were really great, but I also appreciated the thirty of forty sticks on insence they lit. They really paid attention to all sense.

Anyone in NYC who can afford to take a few hours off from their day job (if applicable) should really try and go down there this afternoon and hang out. Most venues release tickets at the last minutes, even for sold-out shows. It worked for me yesterday, and I didn't have to pay more than face value (a little under $40).

seeing this tomorrow!!

jeez, I was a dick on this thread...

Just got back from seeing Fever Ray at Metropolis. Dead centre, maybe 10 feet back...WHOA. Loved the album already, but seeing them live completely transformed a lot of the songs for me. The incense and the smog created a murky and relaxed vibe that lent itself to a vague sense of menace at different points in the show. I didn't really expect the show to be capable of impacting me that much more than the album, but it augments the effect of the music in all the right ways.

REALLY benefitted from a large soundsystem. Granted, I was right in front of the subs, but that was the most bass pressure I have ever felt

OTM. The inside of my chest cavity was vibrating. It was incredible.

holy shit that rocked.

best visual presentation i've seen at a concert since daft punk rolled thru town. vintage lamps & lasers = GOOD LOOK.

I need to stop reading this thread - so jealous of all you guys

seeing her/them on Monday in SF! Serious question: Should I get stoned?

so psyched to see them

^ strongly considering going to this as well. and if it's anything even remotely like the knife's live show then YES you should get VERY stoned