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

I dimly recall a lot of lazers, fog, and some sort of antlers.

"Dimly" is apt. So much fog you literally couldn't see much beyond the lasers and antlers/headdress/masks, peeking out like monsters.

https://feverray.com/

No idk what it all means but I'm stoked for the madness.

Hooray!

http://i65.tinypic.com/2h2egyx.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/69x1UlL4BvNwfN4E9sNHSq

Link gives me their album cover and no tracks, do you get something different? Does this come out tomorrow?

The single is out on streaming services in some timezones but there's a video on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJjGZkPl9Tw

well that's fucked up

jfc

Idk about this...it sounds closer to The Knife than Fever Ray... which I don’t mind because I like the Knife but wanted to hear her evolve on the more moody, less pop Fever Ray sound.

Love the “death metal” logo tho.

fucking amazing

I'm guessing is not a Savage Garden cover?

this is just a mediocre Silent Shout (the song) retread

A+ video

Does indeed sound like a cheerful remake of "Silent Shout", but I like it. Have to admit it's a bit of a confusing move to break up The Knife and then make music as Fever Ray that sounds more like The Knife, but I'm pretty much down with whatever she does.

Yeah this is silent shout... the crass lyrics are a bit cringe too. It’s 2017.

Hope there’s at least a couple of songs closer to the debut.

Dont get me wrong the Silent Shout album is awesome but again this is single is not Fever Ray

Kinda wish "To the Moon and Back" did sound more like The Knife. I think Olof contributed more contrapunctal rhythms.

Odd seeing several female musicians doing fetish inspired work this year. Did FKA Twigs start this trend?

I am on board with this.

I only heard/viewed this once but I'm hearing more s/t than Silent Shout (which may be (one of the reasons) why DJP is on board). Need a couple more listens myself to find out how I feel about this

I hadn't articulated that to myself but yeah, I am 100% on board with throwing back to my favorite Knife album.

Love this. She is a true original.

didn't make it to the end, wish their music had the imagination of the rest - this is basically the same sounds as music they were making years and years ago.

For record keeping purposes at least, this thread needs her 2014 collab with Shinedoe, "Discourse is My New Romance". I can hear it as a midpoint between the 2009 tracks and the latest ones.

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

xp me: fetish inspired work smacks head. not Twigs, 50 Shades.

this is my favorite thing right now. not going to complain about anything that sounds like The Knife in full pop mode and it seems like the album is going to be an interesting thematic extension of what Karin was doing on Shaking the Habitual.

i don't understand the appeal of stuff like this - gross lyrics and even more horrible imagery.

This actually feels like pre-Silent Shout Knife to me - like it would be one of the odder tracks on Deep Cuts but it wouldn't be out of place. The airhorn version is actually better but I dunno - I'm usually wrong about Karin projects on the first listen but I put on the S/T and this just sounds so much cheaper in comparison.

That new single is still better than anything on US Top 40.

jed are you my mom?

yes, my son.

honestly don't think fifty shades has much to do with this. difft imagery, difft vibe, v difft implied politics. but i cant really articulate how beyond my vague secondhand sense of what the queer/trans hipster kink goth youth brigades are up to these days. wherein fifty shades is square bdsm for normies and has a bad rep for its sexual politics overall. song is pretty cool! i didn't "get" fever ray when ilx was gonzo for their spooky wookie chanting music a few years back but this more straightforward sound works for me, guess I shd check out the knife maybe?

Spooky wookie chanting music would be adequate for this time of the year

Casino, see the light; go "Deep Cuts", etc

I love the Knife and I love Fever Ray but I’m not feeling this tbh. It’s too pop and too forced... too “look at me” which is not a good look. Saving my opinion until the rest of the album comes out and the single makes more sense in context.

Doctor Casino: Sure! Just put on Silent Shout, it's a great record start to finish, very immediate

i think start with Deep Cuts, but both records are essential.

cool, thanks y'all!

I like the ones before and after as well!

Their s/t album is the best one </broken record>

You are all forgetting about Honey Is Cool! Worth a listen if only to hear a sweeter, way more amateur side of them. Also hearing Karin’s voice in a rock context is weird:

Waiting for a friend: https://youtu.be/C01xEfrSGjE

Nach heart: https://youtu.be/Pub7NUdZMs0

Twinkle: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqPJCAC3t0

Then he kissed me: https://youtu.be/vSLJb_z9H4Y

xp
Marit Östberg's video for The Knife's "Full of Fire" was also at least partially fetish inspired, and that came out before 50 Shades or any of the FKA Twigs videos (I think)

I can't see how any new Fever Ray music could possibly be a bad thing, so naturally I'm up for a new LP.

And if it sounds like The Knife, I can't see how that's a bad thing either. It's not like we're gonna get any new Knife stuff any time soon, so y'know ...

Marit Östberg's video for The Knife's "Full of Fire" was also at least partially fetish inspired, and that came out before 50 Shades or any of the FKA Twigs videos (I think)

"Full of Fire" came out in 2013. The first FKA twigs videos came out in 2012 and 50 Shades of Grey was published in 2011 and topped the NY Times list in 2012.

Hold on. Are you saying that video wasn't a leak of the new GMC trucks super bowl ad?

still not seeing the "fifty shades" qualities in any of these examples. queer and genderfluid identity, video-art weirdness, suppression of the dominant male figure, and an embrace of kink as healthy, emotionally communicative and delightful... these are all the things fifty shades is zinged for failing at! naw... i feel this all has a lot more to do with witchy hipsters and lived kink identity for either artists or audience. watching "full of fire" right now, and like every shot of it feels like the opposite of fifty shades. plus I mean these are basically weirdo niche artists in the grand scheme of things so if anything you'd expect to find them *opposed* to what's on the bestseller list. but that's just my reading.

didn't you know fifty shades invented kink

if anything i'd say that they're all epiphenomena of some small or large shift in sexuality and the availability of kink material - so e.l. james writing bdsm twilight fanfic circa 2010 (?) is a symptom of something, and so is the formation of some local links (facilitated by the internet) between segments of queer/trans activist communities and young and politically-minded kinky weirdos with art-nerd affiliations. etc.

I am not arguing that 50 Shades influenced Shaking the Habitual; I'm pointing out that it's factually incorrect to say "Full of Fire" came out first.