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

max you can do better

i spoke too soon i guess

thank YOU for all the great art :)

very low key but very effective record....

COCONUT is an amazing closer.

No prob mdr, sorry that my tone could be misread that way. Peace!

(dmr)

didnt know this thread existed cuz i suck at searching for threads, amaaaaaaazing album though...
wish she would tour in the states

Srsly, I haven't liked an album this much for a long time. At first I was unimpressed, it was just quietly rippling intimate unassuming, but over more listens it has kept growing and growing.

And ILM's very own Max drew the cover, how awesome is that?

yeah, i wish i could take back any criticisms i made earlier in this thread. i'm now completely in love with this album.

good stuff

good stuff max

I agree, this is wicked.

That artwork is wicked max, whats your working fees? I intend to release my debut album in 2011 and I want you in.

whoa:

http://vimeo.com/3108686

<3

http://feverray.com/shows/

11th April Fever Ray in London The Royal Festival Hall
Time: 7:30pm. Admission: £20. Age restrictions: All Ages. Buy Tickets. Fever Ray will be supporting Royksopp

This has been my shit this winter, yall

this is pretty much my favorite album of the decade by now.

just listened to this for the 1st time. it's good, but nowhere near as immediate as deep cuts/silent house. songs are less distinctive & distinct from one another -- hooks (to the extent that there are any) are much more subdued, textural. so, a mood piece. a few standout tracks: "if i had a heart", "dry and dusty", "keep the streets empty for me". <333 "coconut" builds slow but pays off okay.

a lot of the rest is a bit too vague, tastefully atmospheric for my crude tastes. "i'm not done" actually kinda killed me with boring, even with only half an ear tuned. perhaps the whole thing will grow on me, but i dunno. i tune out quick.

i tuned out kind of quick on the first listen too. after being initially impressed, that is. but after a few songs, it sounded a little monotone, and she kept hitting those notes that she likes to hit. i should listen again tho.

Only half of it is actually good. I have never been able to listen to it completely needs more sounds on her palette.

wrong, listen again, wrong

think i agree with previous 3 comments - was v impressed when i first heard it, but it never hit me/sunk in as i expected to, 'if i had a heart' apart. i'm not done giving it chances yet though.

xp

wrong, listen again, wrong

^^^^ i think people who don't like this have bad/boring taste in music

that's funny, cuz i figure this record will appeal most strongly to people with fascinating opinions about "good taste" lol

not hating, but the A+ design factor is v high

are you talking about the cover illustration i did

nuh-uh. but cover illo is ACE and looks nothing like charles burns.

thanks

U rocked that cover, bro

that's funny, cuz i figure this record will appeal most strongly to people with fascinating opinions about "good taste" lol

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2nd mr. asada (who is good at tacos). got any other design/illustration stuff out there i might have seen, max?

have u heard of 'banksy'

...

max also does a stuff for the new yorker but that's mostly tv writing right?

max incorporates post modernism into all his works, or so ive heard

also by max:
http://www.unificationfrance.com/IMG/jpg/star_trek_gay_rick_berman_1.jpg

max did you draw that image that accompanied your column on NCIS?

yipes, missed the site link. dig the psych posters & skate graphics (plus everything, but esp those). an admirer

shucks guys yall are making my face red... thanks for the compliments tho

's cool, max! i'm a drawing geek, so geek i will. (working on biting gunsho ATM)

big fan max

On a thread where most people already said the album took a while to reveal itself, others still go "I listened to half of it once and all I liked was Max' cover" = WTF?

(Not dissing the Insane Max Posse here, Maxxalo love 4 life peace out etc)

umm, people having opinions, WTF?

yeah i think i had the same reaction as lex...found it interesting at first, really liked the first track, but ultimately liked it less and less with each subsequent listen. maybe it's just not what i'm looking for right now, i can give it another try in a few months. then again maybe i just have bad/boring taste

(I was talking about their lack of patience, xpost. They don't have to like it. :-) )

Well for me this is some sort of a light version of 'silent shout. They both came out around the same time of year and I remember being very interested and addicted with both at first before it started erosioning. Tho, Silent Shout started wearing off until April and 'Fever Ray' has worn off in less than a month for me.

obviously the brother is not a necessary element of the knife. did karin dreijer do the music?

what i mean to say is that this may as well be a knife album. karin is the one who sends chills down my spine.

Totally disagree - there's really obviously something missing here. That's not to say it's a bad record but it's got the same problem as The Eraser, when you take the seemingly most prominent member away from the joint creative spark that's responsible for their best work.

This is a much better record than The Eraser though, but it's very samey. That said, Keep The Streets Empty For Me is amazing, and I think I'd rather listen to that 12 times in a row than play the album again.

^ this, including streets empty love (though not limited to that track). most obvious absence is that of person who writes the catchy bits.