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

Yes, Falling, Yes

switching to headphones

I am glad this isn't simply S/T Part II (which would have been awesome, don't get me wrong)

glad i switched to headphones because i am that kind of nervous person who worries that the neighbor kids will hear me blasting "this country makes it hard to fuck" over and over. i mean they have to learn sometime i guess, but not from me, not today. this is a message i can connect with more directly if it's piped directly into my ears, i think.

"This Country" is the only thing here I'm not wild about so far

I’m disappointed this isn’t s/t part 2. She lost the mystery that made that album special. Never cared for the abrasiveness of the (late period) Knife. But judging from this thread, I’m in the minority

I fucking adore this and I am a little saddened that I can't in good conscience play it for my kids because, while I think they would love it, I also don't want them shouting "I WANT TO RUN MY FINGER UP YOUR PUSSY" at their teachers/random passers-by/my wife/other family members/me.

xp: Given that Fever Ray was already heading in a bombastic direction with the material that came out post S/T, I think this is a great synthesis of that and the sound palettes The Knife played around with on Shaking the Habitual, tied to a songwriting style that evokes both the S/T and The Knife's pre-Silent Shout work.

I’m also disappointed that it’s not s/t 2. The videos for If I Had a Heart and When I Grow Up were my favorite videos that year and the whole album felt too homogenic for me on first listens but eventually became one of my favorites that year.

this is more like silent shout pt2... it is odd that it sounds more like the knife than the knife itself after that album. That said I also love silent shout so it’s just a matter of accepting we might never hear a proper sequel to the s/t and take this for what it is.

idk it feels like a cool synthesis of basically everything Karin's worked on in a nice tidy package, albeit a little crasser than usual

I just can't imagine not being thrilled by that voice over these massive instrumentals

This is great. She is great.

mama's hand is really something else, too! i think Falling is my other early fave.

You can hear S/T Fever Ray very strongly on "Mustn't Hurry" but it's littered throughout this album.

the cover's atrocious

Agree, all of the visual assets accompanying this release have been hideous.

ha i really like it

spookier colour background maybe needed

I like the heavy metal logo but yeah the album cover and the video released so far is awful.

Red Trails and Mama’s Hand are my favorite and also the ones I find closer to the s/t sound. I’m not feeling the rest at the moment.

I love the video, not sure how I feel about the cover and am really hit or miss with the LP so far. I mean, her at her worst is better than most people's best so I'm happy to have it. I certainly think it reminds me most of Deep Cuts, in the way they both sort of reference different styles of contemporary dance music and is a sort of subversive pop music.

I haven't heard this yet, but I welcome the fact that it doesn't sound like the last Fever Ray album.

Love how relentlessly rhythmic this album is.

Ironically large swathes remind me more of Olof’s remix of Emmanuel Jal’s “Kuar” more than either The Knife or prior Fever Ray.

First impression two minutes in: FUCK YEA

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

fav jam on this album

first track on the new one carries on a similar drone to if i had a heart, but instead of wanting more she's tapped out emotionally. feels like this album utilizes a lot of similar sounds to the first one but in a more kinetic way and less comforting. really great.

2018 Euro tour dates on feverray.com !

Loving the tour poster! 15 March in Brussels!

fuck fuck fuck - pre-sale tix sold out after 30 mins

that was only on the label site. pre-presale. the regular presale starts on Friday 11am, abconcerts.be

the date here is at the Olympia, a 3000 seat theater. bigger than I would expected?

oh, just 2000 maybe. I dunno, I'm going for the first time there for Paramore in January.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/18/fever-ray-pleasure-patriarchy-political-revolution-plunge-karin-dreijer

Great interview

It really is.

My kids don’t learn about non-heterosexual sex in school. My youngest came home and was like: ‘Mum, how do girls have sex? Is it like pussy against pussy?’ And I said: ‘Yeah, you can do that’, and that was it. All good. It’s a key thing for human nature to know how to experience pleasure.”

<3

Related: Sweden invents a word for girls’ genitals equivalent to ‘willy’ for boys

“It came from a gender equality perspective. Boys have a word for it, and girls don’t, and that made me mad,” Kosztovics says. “A friend told me she knew someone who used the word snippa, so I started practising it in front of the mirror.” In 2000 she began promoting it, visiting 50 of Malmö’s then 200 nursery schools, and after that it simply took off.

“I think the snippa initiative was a big success story in Sweden,” says Karin Milles, an academic at Södertorn University in Flemingsberg, who researches feminist projects of “verbal hygiene”. “We hadn’t had much feminist language planning before. It’s the first and I think the major initiative besides hen [a gender-neutral word for ‘he’ and ‘she’].”

The word was already used to describe a small jug for cream and a type of boat, and a small minority used it for vagina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1pEZSCcfAc

Loving the hard soca vibes on 'IDK about you'

yeah - the intro sounds like a lost golden-era Missy cut

https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/fever-ray-explains-how-ball-gags-leather-fetishes-and-weird-memes-inspired-her-new-album

Martin Falck: It was funny to see how queer Mr. Freeze was. He was so scary! But here he has this silk bow tie! He sort of looks like Uncle Fester. And then also he’s not super evil. He just likes diamonds. But the world doesn’t wanna give him diamonds, so he needs to freeze everyone.

Karin Dreijer: I really loved all the Batman films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOJypN4cFig

"Wanna Sip" video is out.

also, Gabriela Tully Claymore at Stereogum: How Homemade BDSM And The Politics Of Sex Influenced Fever Ray’s Plunge Aesthetic

Tickets for the north-american tour are on pre-sale on her website now!

No TX dares, booooooo!

*dates

Is the vinyl release delayed?

I've seen the vinyl at Amoeba in Los Angeles, so maybe it's just slow getting to your stores?

Damn. I'm in Riverside and the shop I went to couldn't even order it. I then checked Amazon and saw that it's on pre-order until April 13th (for the 2xLP, nothing on the 1x). Might have to make an Amoeba run.

Politifact: NRA says violent radicals are behind the March For Our Lives

Hope all goes well.

Oops, wrong thread.

I went to see the live show this week and it was SO GOOD, a huge improvement on the tour for the debut. I'm still fully convinced "Plunge" is a truly great album, too many of the songs feel like sloganeering disguising a sense of being underwritten (although I get that's what its going for etc), but it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.

I got the vinyl last week. I'm in the UK though.

Just saw the show in L.A. and it was a total blast. Complete opposite of the mesmerizing foggy night goth style of the show I saw in 2009, this one was all dancing and smiles and unabashed partying. And she’s just a mesmerizing stage presence.