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

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

vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link

the guitar on this is really nice

caek, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link

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

6335, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i think coconut is my favorite song on this right now

vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link

this is truly dope

shook pwns (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link

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

caek, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link

so massive

dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link

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

s1ocki, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link

sure they can

shook pwns (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link

therefore...

s1ocki, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link

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

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link

"that"

shook pwns (omar little), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link

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).

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lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link

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

cutty, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link

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

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link

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

lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link

@cutty - clearly this 1 has all the talent.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

caek, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link

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

caek, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link

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

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link

the writing credits are in the PDF included with the download

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link

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!!

dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link

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

but dear me, it's a wonderful album.

sean gramophone, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link

"dishwasher tablets"

caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link

LOVING "Triangle Walks" ON REPEAT

baaderonixx, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link

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

t_g, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link

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

caek, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Gavin in Leeds, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Soundslike, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link

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

"vocals on track 9 by Cecilia Nordlund"

StanM, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link

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

StanM, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link

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

Local Garda, Thursday, 22 January 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 22 January 2009 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

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

s1ocki, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah I like this a lot and it def. has a similar palette to the knife stuff but it def sounds v.distinct and unknifelike to me

set phasers to stan (cozwn), Thursday, 22 January 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link

interested to see if I come round on this like the last album (i think I really disliked at first) 'cos I'm underwhelmed on first listen. I can hear a lot of Kate Bush in this too, but in a "so what" way really. Feels like a whole album of the boring parts of Silent Shout :/

fandango, Thursday, 22 January 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link

'Silent Shout' was a slow burner for me, too, because I think I was so enamored of their poppier side. But this one hit immediately for me.

Soundslike, Friday, 23 January 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link

it's just too bad the name makes it sound like a psychobilly band.

straight lol

caek, Friday, 23 January 2009 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm not really sure why I LOVE this album while I always found The Knife irritating (in twee-scary way)

baaderonixx, Friday, 23 January 2009 10:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Sounds like you might be due for a re-appraisal, then? That could be a thrill--to suddenly have three great albums "click" at once. . .

Soundslike, Friday, 23 January 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link

raddddd album

8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Saturday, 24 January 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah this is good

dmr, Saturday, 24 January 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link

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.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 May 2023 06:58 (eleven months ago) link

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 :-)

willem, Friday, 12 May 2023 12:04 (eleven months ago) link

Awesome in Pasadena

Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 14 May 2023 00:39 (eleven months ago) link

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

Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 14 May 2023 16:02 (eleven months ago) link

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

omar little, Sunday, 14 May 2023 17:00 (eleven months ago) link

one month passes...

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

nashwan, Friday, 23 June 2023 22:42 (ten months ago) link


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