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

were on the outs

She makes me think of Stevie Nicks on that.
How good a singer she is is easy to overlook because of the effects

Go to here:

http://svtplay.se/t/104018/p3_guld_2010

Scroll ahead to the 45 minute mark, and watch.

She's an odd girl.

whoa

How good a singer she is is easy to overlook because of the effects

also because of her timbre; it's totally the Bjork effect, where there's a quirkiness in the vocal production that is so attractive or repellent to the audience that a lot of people gloss over the technical mastery behind the vocal production

She's an odd girl.

I don't think it was her, or at least she didn't have long dreadlocks when I saw FR live last summer. Could've been anyone behind the mask. Maybe one of the guys from the live band, I recall one of them having a hat like that.

Anyway, this should certainly confirm FR is a fan Burns's Black Hole, if the album cover and the videos weren't enough to do that.

The look on Promoe's face was great when they cut to him.

holy lolz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU

hey tuomas is promoe a big deal? i met that dude a month ago when looptroop rockers played a show with the hip hop band i'm playing for in mpls...super nice dude, put on a great show.

great speech

Needs more Kanye interruptions.

gaga ray

Gaga rightly gets credit for the first to dress crazy and wear masks.

Promoe is quite well-known in the Nordic countries among rap fans, though hip-hop purists probably prefer Looptroop over his solo material, since the solo stuff is more reggae/dancehall influenced. (IIRC "Looptroop Rockers" is so named because one of the members of the original Looptroop quit the band.) I think Promoe had a big Swedish-language hit song (previously he'd only rapped in English) a while ago where he mocks the Swedish equivalent of "chavs"/"rednecks", so in Sweden he's probably famous outside the rap crowd too.

thx for the info...he was exceedingly nice when i met him

hahaha fever ray video was the soup's clip of the week

they made a joke saying that it was actually heidi montag

lol

alright THANK YOU - this time no way I'm missing this

Fever Ray announces further dates in London and Paris

Those who were lucky enough to catch Fever Ray play live at one of her sold out UK shows last year were uniformly spellbound. From the incredible laser show to the otherworldly pagan stagewear, and not least the spectacle of the self-titled debut album breathtakingly brought to life, these were golden tickets.

Yes, we did announce last year that Fever Ray was to play no further UK live dates, but due overwhelming public demand Karin and her band will come out of hibernation to play 2 more shows in London and Paris, as well as selected festival dates.

Fever Ray will play at London’s Brixton Academy on September 8th and Paris’ La Cigale on September 9th. Tickets are available from 9am Wednesday 10th March* at feverray.com/tickets
*Add the date to: Calendar / Facebook

Fever Ray will also be playing at this year ’s Coachella Festival and the only UK festival appearance will be at Bestival.

Forthcoming live dates are as follows:
16th Apr – Coachella, Indio, CA, USA - Buy Tickets
8th Sep - Brixton Academy, London, UK - Buy Tickets
9th Sep - La Cigale, Paris, France - Buy Tickets
11-13th Sep – Bestival, Isle of Wight, UK - Buy Tickets

Fever Ray – The Double Disc Edition album and Live in Luleå are available now.

so i was browsing the aquarius 'best of the year so far' list for anything without "dooooooooooooom" in the description, and came across this...

"ROLL THE DICE "s/t" (Digitalis) cd 15.98
This AQ fave, originally issued this past winter on vinyl (and long since out of print in that format) is finally available on cd, definitely a good thing!
A bit of a left field release for Digitalis, Roll The Dice is a duo from Sweden, producers who have worked with The Knife and Fever Ray, but who here, serve up some sort of futuristic retro John Carpenter / Goblin style synthscapes, albeit with their own twist.
The sound is most definitely spacey, and synthy, and soundtracky, throbbing, pulsing, subtly psychedelic, the continuous sci-fi pulse that seems to drive every low budget movie made in the eighties, but wrapped around elements that are distinctly more earthy and organic, a little bit of folk, some broody minimalism, even (and especially) a bit of pop, definitely a strange hybrid, but of the two elements it definitely leans heavily in the synth/space/retro direction. That said, these guys cover a lot of ground, slipping from full on Goblin pulse, all haunting and minor key, to moody poppy playfulness, to long drifts of shimmering spaced out ambience and even extended moments of almost Basic Channel-like deep dub minimalism, all of those held together by the presence, either subtle or pronounced, of that relentless, pulsing sci-fi synth line.
The flipside finds RTD getting all blissed out and Pop Ambient, washed out, shimmery, sun dappled and glimmery, crystalline melodies, and barely there buried soft focus rhythms, before closing the record with what sounds like the music behind the credits from some super obscure, eighties, straight to video thriller, slow and spacious and smoldering, ominous and a bit creepy, but still spacey and synthy.
Anyone into recent records from Umberto, D.A., Anima Morte, Somnam, Pulse Emitter, Steve Moore, as well as yeah, of course, the aforementioned Goblin, Zombi and John Carpenter, would do well to check this out too."

upon first listen the record is pretty great! but yeh, have to admit it's sorta crazy that this is on digitalis, didn't have a higher profile, etc. (or maybe i'm just wayyy out of the loop)

you can find a few tracks here

haha what a coincidence

today I have been repeatedly listening to the fever ray songs 'seven' and 'i'm not done', especially the latter

it's definitely much different than the fever ray/knife stuff, but tracks like "guadeloupe" (my favorite at this point) could almost pass for a basic channel dub remix of a karin or olof track

that description sounds amazing, will def be checking this out later

http://soundcloud.com/fever-ray/mercy-street

^^ fever ray cover of 'mercy street' available for ONE DAY ONLY

oops download link: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=122&p=8922&title=fever_ray_cover_peter_gabriel&more=1&c=1

not the lowest degree-of-difficulty cover to pull off but on first listen this is pretty great

Agreed. And I disliked last year's album.

hey

http://files.kavefish.com/pictures/animated/david_caruso_fuck_you.gif

boy, he's really turned into Skeletor.

Agreed. And I disliked last year's album.

O_O

Why so?

Eh. I don't have a taste for this kind of parched femme-fronted synth pop. Even Portishead requires a leap of faith.

i loved it, thank you for posting this.

mixtape - http://dazeddigital.com/music/article/8248/1/fever-ray-exclusive-mixtape

really diggin that mixtape. wish there was a download link or I was smart enough to know how to :`(

umm this is going to be awesome http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/02/premiere-set-for-hour-of-the-wolf-with-music-by-fever-ray/

I was pretty surprised to hear tunes by Fever Ray used in this movie, which is a compilation of Swedish short movies made with the intent of producing feminist porn (thought some of them aren't really porn).... I wouldn't really associate FR with erotic titillation, so the juxtaposition of them and the film material felt kinda odd. Looks like Karin Dreijer supported the project though, since FR tunes were heard in several of the shorts, and they were mostly unreleased instrumentals and remixes, not the album versions.

It was also a pretty weird experience to watch actual porn in a cinema with strangers, even though I went there with a female friend, and the feminist theme kinda made it more socially acceptable.

if I visit that page, which I am about to do, it won't be with Fever Ray in mind, just sayin'

feminism?

porntastic preview! anyway, fever ray make extremely sexy music, so the collaboration doesn't surprise me.

LESBIAN =/= FEMINIST

tbh I've been looking for ages for porn that isn't in the crass phallocentric cumshot mould, AND has a sense of artistic visual or thematic narrative - amateur stuff sometimes but all too rarely fits the bill

in 2011, I pledge you, the public, more ILTMI/ILM crossover posts than you ever thought possible

Oh ok I just noticed there's also heterosexual porn involved. Don't mind me. Still don't understand what makes it 'feminist' porn but I guess I have to see more than the trailer to catch on.

feminist porn = porn made by feminists, iirc

feminist = not like Brazzers

that manifesto is GREAT btw - the ppl gonna reclaim the 'porn' ('pornography' is a terrible and oppressive term anyway)