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

hooray/about time.. it's been three years since silent shout!

― poortheatre

fuck sake time flies.

Damn this is good. Growing on me too, still

I'm pretty sure this is better than everything I heard last year (with, like, maybe the exception of the-dream, but i'm pretty sure this is even better than that album). So many textures and moods and hooks and sounds. I love her.

Kate Bush yes

listened again, and while a lot of it was really, really great, i still found it to be a little flat overall. certain parts (mostly vocals) risk becoming overused and gimmicky on this album, whereas i never would've thought that about the knife. that's not to say i don't enjoy it, i think i haven't listened to it in the right mood yet, so i don't wanna be too hard on it.

I'm really, really enjoying this album. It sounds so lush, so rich in mood and atmosphere.

I think I can see why later aprpeggiator finds it "a little flat", or 'samey', perhaps, but right now that's just a huge plus for me. The sound just flows and flows, and there are no musical 'thorns' that suddenly break the spell.

Yeah, I hear "unified" here, not "same-y"

man, this is h u g e

i am loving more and more, esp. the final 'keep the streets'/'coconut' couplet

listened to this again and am enjoying it a lot more after i stopped comparing it to the knife

the guitar on this is really nice

first song is amazing. enjoying it so far (halfway through)

i think coconut is my favorite song on this right now

this is truly dope

i'm not hearing any differences between a Knife album and this, which isn't a bad thing necessarily. not sure why they felt the need to use a different name for this. great album though. i'm on my 2nd time through and haven't heard a bad track yet.

same reason imagine isn't credited to the beatles, i imagine.

so massive

so she did the music to this without help from her brother or whoever does the music for The Knife? this sounds exactly like the Knife.

i guess it's like Peter Hook w/ Monaco doing What Do You Want From Me and Shine, which both sound just like New Order songs. oh well, doesn't matter who did the music, this album is fantastic.

maybe she did the music - women can create music beyond singing yknow

sure they can

orly? i had no idea since i'm a huge woman oppressing asshole.

the point is, this sounds EXACTLY like a Knife album. there are no songs here that sound different to anything that the Knife have released at this point. even without the voice, this would be identifiable/sonically linked to a Knife album.

therefore...

i see The Subliminal Kid gets a credit but i'm assuming it's not DJ Spooky - That Subliminal Kid.

"that"

re: production, it seems half of it is by christoffer berg and half by van rivers & subliminal kid (haven't heard those names before but berg apparently mixed the knife's work).

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:03 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the knife is two people. this is one of those people. that's why it has a different name.

i'm going to use This Subliminal Kid as my new DJ/MC/Producer name!

there are no songs here that sound different to anything that the Knife have released at this point. even without the voice, this would be identifiable/sonically linked to a Knife album

maybe karin just likes those sounds, whether working with her brother or not. i think the songwriting - what i've heard of it - is a lot more intimate than the knife's stuff.

or maybe personal is a better word, not so much hiding behind theatrical masks and so on

@cutty - clearly this 1 has all the talent.

the point is, this sounds EXACTLY like a Knife album. there are no songs here that sound different to anything that the Knife have released at this point. even without the voice, this would be identifiable/sonically linked to a Knife album.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 11:15 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

when people make solo albums they sometimes sound like their band. they do not necessarily credit it to the band. do you see?

p.s. i completely dispute your premise that this sounds exactly like the knife.

xp, tell us more about how this album was recorded and who does the work! you seem an expert.

i'm laying down eating snow
my fur is hot my tongue is cold
on a bed of spiderweb
i think of how to change myself

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i can't wait to hear this at home on the stereo

ok, fine, everyone else is right and i am wrong. i can accept this since it wouldn't be the first time i was wrong.

the writing credits are in the PDF included with the download

the guitar on this is really nice

― caek, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm...kinda reminds me of the guitars on West Coast in some places (jeez not everything etc etc).

lex also otm re: intimacy. i love how the vocals have been recorded: you can hear her breathing in, you can hear her mouthing the plosives, all that shit.

this is massive!!

lyrics are less good than knife stuff, i think. not enough darlings slain.

but dear me, it's a wonderful album.

"dishwasher tablets"

LOVING "Triangle Walks" ON REPEAT

was just going to mention that dishwasher tablet line - she'd never mention that in the knife!

she mentions some pretty prosaic stuff in forest families, and I feel like this album is an extension of that song

Love the single/video, definitely has the feel of an album opener, sort of low-key. Yeah, looking forward to this.

Just realised this is the first time the sounds-like-Bjork association (which would rarely if ever bother me if true) makes sense to me. Though weirdly here it's through the lyrical content somewhat, not the "general European-accented quirky woman voice singing over electronics" similarity. That "dishwasher tablet" line in particular, the leaps from the mundane to the dreamlike--reminds me of the great Bjork b-side "Domestica," but the more depressive counterpart of that track's manic personality.

Again, for me this doesn't diminish it in the least. It's certainly not as though the Knife is aping anybody.

I think Karin's lyrics have sometimes tended toward the mundane at least since Deep Cuts. I like how she mixes surreal and mundane to create an unsettling feel rather than simply whimsical, they re-contextualize things to make them seem more sad/absurd/creepy, though they do risk becoming a little more twee on this album. She seems concerned more with the weirdness of technology and modern society than with pure fantasy, which is really appealing to me (cause life is weird enough, amirite?)

The moment when her voice is completely bare of effects on Keep the Streets Empty For Me is incredibly beautiful. The nakedness of her voice is much more striking to me than the lyrics. I think she does this on one of the tracks on Deep Cuts as well.

The most Bjork-y part of the album to me is probably the tone of her singing on When I Grow Up. The most Kate Bush-y part is probably those little yelping synth sounds on Triangle Walks, also there are some other sounds that remind me of King of the Mountain. The feel of the moment on I'm Not Done when the bassline comes in also reminds me of Kate. But of course this album sounds way more like Karin(/the Knife) than anyone else.

The moment when her voice is completely bare of effects on Keep the Streets Empty For Me

"vocals on track 9 by Cecilia Nordlund"

( http://www.cecilianordlund.com/ & http://www.myspace.com/cecilianordlund )

(Actually, it's Karin/Cecilia ("I learned to not eat the snow")/duet)

this is good...video for the single fits so perfectly.

i love this album. it's easier to listen to in full than any of the Knife albums. the highs aren't as high but it's quality all the way.

i like this a lot. the video is incredible. it's just too bad the name makes it sound like a psychobilly band.

No way you’d go see them live if what’s how they perform?

Glad they're back, love the album after a few listens, love the unsettling visuals (this has always been the case with them, hasn't it?)

I liked Plunge, though, and the live show was so fun, a ridiculous queer dance party. I guess her horny baby aesthetic back then might have scared off some squares indeed, lol

THIS IS FOR ZACHARRRRRRIUS

Got my numbered vinyl copy - #100!

"shiver" is a hell of a song, sheesh

Finally figured out what "Shiver" reminded me of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-2jXC6rUIc

the costuming and vibe is incredible, and definitely not new. i mean ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU (trigger warning: Cronenbergian shit)

The first time I saw Fever Ray live was one of the coolest shows I've ever seen. The last time I saw the Knife was one of my least favorite shows. Was considering seeing Fever Ray this weekend, but I suspect it will be closer to the latter in terms of themes and visuals than the former. Which, granted, was mostly just blurry costumed shapes cloaked in smoke, plus lasers, but it was super effective.

Phew, their set tonight in Oakland was quite incredible. Having not seen Karin Dreijer in any context live before I can't compare, but that was just a stellar presentation and the audience was deeply into it.

I had the same experience a month ago in Amsterdam - wonderful costumes, amazing, sensual, and positive energy, helped by a continuous positive feedback loop between crowd and performers. Saw them in 2009 on the tour supporting the debut, a very memorable gig but far more gloomy and gothy, presentation wise. Though I think one of the standing lamps of that tour was also part of the current decor :-)

Awesome in Pasadena

god, Even It Out fucking rips live. I can't turn the volume up loud enough on the album track to relive it.

Wish I'd seen em, so great live both times on the tours for the prior two albums.

Watching the Glastonbury set, loving this version of 'When I Grow Up'