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.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Friday, 27 October 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 October 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Friday, 27 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
I just can't imagine not being thrilled by that voice over these massive instrumentals
― Simon H., Friday, 27 October 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
This is great. She is great.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
mama's hand is really something else, too! i think Falling is my other early fave.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 27 October 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
You can hear S/T Fever Ray very strongly on "Mustn't Hurry" but it's littered throughout this album.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Friday, 27 October 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
the cover's atrocious
― ||||||||, Friday, 27 October 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
Agree, all of the visual assets accompanying this release have been hideous.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
ha i really like it
― nxd, Friday, 27 October 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
spookier colour background maybe needed
I like the heavy metal logo but yeah the album cover and the video released so far is awful.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 October 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 27 October 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Friday, 27 October 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard this yet, but I welcome the fact that it doesn't sound like the last Fever Ray album.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 27 October 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Friday, 27 October 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
First impression two minutes in: FUCK YEA
― yesca, Saturday, 28 October 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kkvnNBbfoA
fav jam on this album
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 6 November 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
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.
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 11 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
2018 Euro tour dates on feverray.com !
― StanM, Monday, 13 November 2017 10:57 (six years ago) link
Loving the tour poster! 15 March in Brussels!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 13 November 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck - pre-sale tix sold out after 30 mins
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 10:39 (six years ago) link
that was only on the label site. pre-presale. the regular presale starts on Friday 11am, abconcerts.be
― StanM, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 11:24 (six years ago) link
the date here is at the Olympia, a 3000 seat theater. bigger than I would expected?
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
oh, just 2000 maybe. I dunno, I'm going for the first time there for Paramore in January.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/18/fever-ray-pleasure-patriarchy-political-revolution-plunge-karin-dreijerGreat interview
― willem, Saturday, 18 November 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
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
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 18 November 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
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.
“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
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Loving the hard soca vibes on 'IDK about you'
― Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Thursday, 23 November 2017 10:18 (six years ago) link
yeah - the intro sounds like a lost golden-era Missy cut
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 23 November 2017 10:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOJypN4cFig
"Wanna Sip" video is out.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
also, Gabriela Tully Claymore at Stereogum: How Homemade BDSM And The Politics Of Sex Influenced Fever Ray’s Plunge Aesthetic
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
Tickets for the north-american tour are on pre-sale on her website now!
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
No TX dares, booooooo!
― Moodles, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
*dates
Is the vinyl release delayed?
― sueñx latinx (naus), Saturday, 24 March 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
I've seen the vinyl at Amoeba in Los Angeles, so maybe it's just slow getting to your stores?
― omar little, Saturday, 24 March 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
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.
― sueñx latinx (naus), Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link
Politifact: NRA says violent radicals are behind the March For Our Lives
Hope all goes well.
― #DeleteFacebook (Sanpaku), Saturday, 24 March 2018 05:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 24 March 2018 09:17 (six years ago) link
I got the vinyl last week. I'm in the UK though.
― kraudive, Saturday, 24 March 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Saturday, 26 May 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
yeah, i caught one of the shows in nyc a couple weeks back and it was terrific. just wish they'd played longer. great energy. and an awesome light show!
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 26 May 2018 12:05 (five years ago) link
I really wish I had made it! I'd had tickets to Sunday's show but at the last minute decided I didn't want to get home at 2 am on a worknight (I live very far from south brooklyn)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Saturday, 26 May 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
yeah that was a pain for sure. also the crowd was kinda wonky since a lot i guess were just fans of electronic music generally, or of Red Bull.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 26 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
I have a car. I drove home in traffic from mothers day in NJ for an hour and a half to queens, dropped off wife and child, drove in the rain forever all the way down scared I'd miss it but showed up near the end of the opening act. The show didn't run too late but even though it was a work night, I decided to treat myself by driving to Jackson Heights to get my favorite halal chicken and lamb over rice. Having a car really helps.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 26 May 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
good tip!!! guess i'll buy a car.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 26 May 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
It really makes things so much easier, even if there's too much traffic and not enough parking. As I drove away and saw all the people walking to the train, I couldn't help but feel sad for them.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 27 May 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link