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

i'll have to ask max to speak to peter about this

Fever Ray is this month's CD in the Rough Trade Album club (and comes with a bonus CD of remixes by Fuck Buttons, one called "Van Rivers Dark Sails on the Horizon Mix," and one called "Remembered by the Subliminal Kid").

There is a leaflet/interview thing with it where she's asked to list her influences on the album. Some interesting choices:

1) Fugazi - "13 Songs" (!!!!!)
"A brilliant band, and a brilliant collection of powerful, emotional songs. It's real and honest and raw and angry but also sensitive and kind of bruised, not macho."

2) Tomahawk - "Anonymous"
"I think Mike Patton has been doing very interesting stuff for a while now, and this record was one we listened to a lot when we were finishing the album. It had a good impact on the record."

3) Fuck Buttons - "Street Horrsing"
"They did a remix of the first single, and I love it and I love this album, they are a great band. Very exciting."

pretty excellent show tonight (supporting also great Royksopp but FR have the EDGE). strict renditions from the album (which still hasn't engrained enough for me to recognise everything), but with added pretty lasers. was too high up to really see Karin and her band tho, and she only sang one song with Royksopp (Tricky Tricky) which was disappointing (Drecker sang What Else Is There and This Must Be It well but hmph).

i don't think you could see karin or her band from anywhere - you definitely never saw their faces. unless you got right up close to the stage, maybe. totally creepy and awesome. that gig pushed me off the fence into LOVING her music, anyway. i was wrong about not remembering any of it b/c i recognised every song within the first few bars. 'keep the streets empty for me' was incredible.

Saw her/them friday in Rotterdam - fantastic show. Shaded lamps + lasers + carefully placed mirrors = magic. Also the costumes looked great but it was a bit too dimly lit to fully appreciate those. Looked a bit like Pirates of the Carribean extras :)
They played two songs I didn't recognize (and I know the album by heart). One with a chorus with "I'm a stranger" lyrics (barely understandable through the vox-modifications) and a short piece near the end that was some sort of interlude I think. Highly recommended!

Ah, I just read a review that said they covered Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Stranger than Kindness".

That sounds great Willem, makes me feel even more sad I couldn't attend.

Was there a merch table?

there was at the RFH, half FR half 'Sopp

charles gibson introducing this fever ray segment is pretty hilarious. also the pictures moving to the music http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7271349

Hey Gerard, too bad you couldn't make it, would've been great to get to talk again.

There was a merch table (Plato) and I had set my hopes on the FR LP but no... Just a poster, the cd and a shirt. Bummer.

You can tell that Gibson loathes introducing the weekly pitchfork segment in every bone of his body.

Ah, I just read a review that said they covered Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Stranger than Kindness".

really?!?! that sounds like possibly the best thing ever.

"Stranger than Kindness"

The instant I read this, I could hear it in my head.

I checked the lyrics and yeah that must've been the song I didn't recognize. From one of the Cave albums I don't happen to own. It was slow, sludgy almost (I remember thinking something like an industrial Dead Can Dance) - brooding.

xpost - haha. ^^does it sound like that? ;-)

it's maybe my favourite nick cave song. i gotta hear their version!

Hey Gerard, too bad you couldn't make it, would've been great to get to talk again.

There was a merch table (Plato) and I had set my hopes on the FR LP but no... Just a poster, the cd and a shirt. Bummer.

― willem, Sunday, April 12, 2009 6:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Would've loved to have talked to you again as well man! (if I pm you through ilx, will it reach you?).
A 'Stranger than Kindness' cover... WANT.

There's not enough live footage of FR around on the internets. I did stumble upon this video though. Must be the YouTube version of fanfic, innit? Still, well played...

Ah, I just read a review that said they covered Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Stranger than Kindness".

Every fibre of my being is screaming for me to go 'lol goth' but actually, I bet that was incredible.

Not really recognizeable, but this sounds like it could be Stranger Than Kindness

yup, that's it.

wow that's my favorite Nick Cave song. When is she gonna do a proper tour?

last friday:
http://www.volkskrant.nl/multimedia/archive/00150/Fever-Ray_150678c.jpg

there was some...thing prancing around with what looked like some kind of staff. spent most of the set trying to figure that out.

some kind of pagan dance as in the wicker man?

I bought the album so have only heard it on my record player, and I have this nagging feeling that there's more going on sonically than is really take-innable in a house, with sounds floating through the air, intermixed with the activities and sounds of everything else. Does anyone think this is true? Have most of the rest of you mainly heard this on headphones?

Or alternatively, on a giant fuck-off sound system?

on good headphones it controls your mind.

but yeah, i get more out of this on headphones than I do on my (good) computer speakers.

maybe it's just because it's the most upbeat but 'Seven' is my favourite track on here

Scuba mix of 'When I Grow Up' is nice (ordinary 1 bassdrum per 4 beats dubstep tho)

I've been listening to this for a couple weeks on comp speakers, listening to it now stoned on new cheap headphones and it's so much more magnificent

Concrete Walls is so creepy when you listen to the lyrics:

"I live between concrete walls
when I took her up she was so warm

I live between concrete walls
In my arms she was so warm

Eyes are open and mouth cries
I haven't slept since summer

oh how i try
I leave the TV on
and the radio on"

lissvik remix of 'when i grow up' is great

not sure this will work

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2342023&id=38532258901

this?

haha yeah ;-) - I wanted to post that creepy pic in that press clipping

this record is awesome

OTM. I don't think I've ever been as wrong about a record on initial listen - I now prefer it to Silent Shout I think.

that is as wrong!

Not been confirmed by the website yet, but apparently just been added to the bill at the Brighton Loop festival.

Kinda curious, but kinda broke...

playing in july at shepherd's bush

webster hall nyc this fall. no dates/tickets yet

I'll be at the SF show. Going to stare at the screen until the tix become available.

all north american tour dates announced,
http://feverray.com/shows/

counting the seconds until the tickets go on sale

jinx

kinda

sf tickets going on sale when?

dunno yet, but it's at the regency

the website for that place is bizarre. have you seen a show there?

agreed about the website, all ballroomish-looking, i've never heard of shows there

Saw MIA with Rye Rye there in 2005. Sounded horrible but I dunno if it artist or venue or both to blame.

I just got this and I'm digging it, but is there something wrong with me in that I don't really find anything sinister or scary about this?

1) ur a goth 2) have u seen the music videos