Karin Dreijer Andersson FEVER RAY s/t debut album POLL

I really love this album a lot but the song I keep coming back to is "Dry and Dusty". The slow build as each component of the song is layered in mixed in with the processed vocals, all blossoming into that last restatement of the chorus before winding back down is pretty much the epitome of that album's ability to meld moodcraft and songcraft into a gigantic bludgeon of awesome.

definitely either track 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 or 10

vote 3

When I Grow Up

All of them.

oh okay then, Streets Empty.

definitely track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10

and i'm only saying that coz i don't have the bonus tracks

seriously i don't even listen to this album as song after song, it just seems like a connected suite of moods that one passes through like a corridor without ever really realising when one ends and the next begins

i'm not done

triangle walks maybe

Seven 4EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

coconut

I agree with the love for "Dry And Dusty". I also love 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 so I'm not sure yet.

seven!!

I have no idea how to choose, I love this album.

Dry and Dusty through Triangle Walks is definitely a nice run, though.

yeah most albums you might feel lazy sometimes and just skip to your fave track. once u put this it on you listen to it all the way through. thats the beauty of it. not many recent albums i can say that about.

concrete walls ftw

Figure this is my album of the year. Love 'em all. Still thinking...

"I never liked that sad look from someone who wants to be loved by you"

Another vote for Dry and Dusty. Pleasantly surprised to see it getting so much love.

This is fucking impossible.

Though I feel like I should represent for either Triangle Walks, Concrete Walls, I'm not done or Coconut.

seriously i don't even listen to this album as song after song, it just seems like a connected suite of moods that one passes through like a corridor without ever really realising when one ends and the next begins

so otm - just listened again and really unable to choose any one over the others. maybe not "coconut" - i often end with "keep the streets empty for me", which feels like perfect closure.

actually, it'd be between "if i had a heart", "seven", "triangle walks", "now's the only time i know" and "keep the streets empty for me".

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Ooh wow... must vote soon.

'When I grow up' for me. I like when the guitar line comes in round the second verse and it makes the vocals soar softly above the persistent, sterile synths. Sort of reminds me of the kind of tricks Radiohead were pulling on amnesiac, which is quite fine in my book.

this is fucking impossible

^^ what you said.

'Now's the only time I know' for the simple genius of the rhythm track and the perfectly placed bass countermelody that comes in before the second verse.

yeah tempted to go with that one

bu this pretty much sums it up:

seriously i don't even listen to this album as song after song, it just seems like a connected suite of moods that one passes through like a corridor without ever really realising when one ends and the next begins

"Now's The Only Time I Know" is the only song I can't remember by looking at the title, yet I am certain I love every song on this album.

oh duh, just started it and yes this song is fucking great, probably my dark-horse contender to "Dry and Dusty"

xp here's a reminder then

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

I will say that "If I Had A Heart" is one of the best album openers ever recorded.

i still can't decide

if i knew how to make sockpuppets i'd create ten of them to vote for each song

i'm going to not vote coz i can't choose

Use a random number generator!

the ones i'm not considering - "when i grow up", which as a single i found underwhelming; "concrete walls", which is great but more of a transition mood piece; "coconut", which i rarely listen to because "keep the streets empty for me" is such a perfect, perfect song and closer

I tend to agree with you, although sometimes I think 'Concrete Walls' is my fave, until the next song starts that is.

"Concrete Walls" was the other song I was considering picking until I was reminded of exactly which song "Now's The Only Time I Know" was.

while we're here i really need to draw everyone's attention to the martyn remix of "seven"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWSnq04o5Jk

i think i have it narrowed down to dry and dusty or keep the streets empty

that was the hardest sophie's choice i've had to make on an album but keep the streets empty for me

just for all those is that a theremin or guitar feedback or a flute or SPOOKY SCANDINAVIAN GHOSTS noises in the background

i think i'm changing my vote to 'seven' based on how she sang this part live:

I know it, I think I know it from a hymn
They've said so, it doesn't need more explanation
A box to open up with light and sound
Making you cold
Very cold

Arrrrrghhh way too hard. I'm gonna just go for the awesomely evil opener.

Fuck i know i've voted on this but i can't remember which track i voted for.

voted I'm Not Done over Concrete Walls. Maybe my favorite album last year, which is odd since initially i placed it several notches below Silent Shout.

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These results make really good sense, I like the voting spread!

this poll=dumb

the album=awesome

Now's the Only Time I Know is really good why'd it get last :(

Yeah, that was the big surprise to me - figured Now's the Only Time I Know would at least place about I'm Not Done and maybe Coconut.

This track is probably just loved most by people who don't vote on polls imo.

forgot to vote :-(

Has anyone noted what seems to be a direct reference in 'Keep the Streets Empty for Me' to the awesome 60s psych track 'We are the Moles'?

The relevant Moles lyric: 'Hiding our faces/Revealing our souls'

Top two choices OTM; Personally I fluctuate between both being my favourite tracks depending on the occasion. "Concrete Walls" is too low in this poll though

Fever Ray would be a great contributor to Handmaid's Tale's soundtrack.

This album sounding reeeeeal good through nice headphones while walking the dog and a little stoned last night.

It’s that time of the year when this album is the best album to hear at dusk

or any time of day really

ended up doing this today without having seen your post, Moka