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

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.

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!

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)

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.

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.

good tip!!! guess i'll buy a car.

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.

I looked into it and it turns out owning and operating a car costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars a month more than what I pay for a Metrocard. :-(

https://thequietus.com/articles/26676-fever-ray-live-album-troxy

I still prefer the depressed intimate 2009 'Ray over the violent in your face lesbo SM mistress thing on the second album :(

"lesbo," really?

don't really remember much violence either but I should put it back in rotation, i dug that album a lot.

Same as StanM. That second album was such a disappointment after the magic of the debut. But then again I’ve never been a Knife fan and that 2nd album seemed much more in line with that band’s (recent) sound.

xpost: maybe not violent violence but "violently in your face" and I seem to remember some kind of not-very-hetero golden shower in a clip? (didn't mean to offend by using the word "lesbo")

Fever Ray put on one of the best performances I've ever seen when they toured the first album. The full of shit Knife show I saw not long after was one of the worst (imo), and it sounds like Fever Ray went that direction as well.

The Fever Ray show I saw touring the second album was a blast and it felt like the exact type of show I wanted to see at that time. The polar opposite of the stunning show they put on for the first album.

the imagery/videography and some of the lyrics were definitely kinky and definitely queer and/or genderqueer... i just don't remember anything violent as such, certainly not at the level of "The Cop" by The Knife for example. (that also had urinary imagery actually but in a different context - obv urine itself is not inherently violent.) i should think more about why "lesbo" rubbed me the wrong way - to me it has connotations of like, 90s-00s porn titles, the fetishization of lesbian identity as a novelty in itself, etc. (but maybe that's just an artifact of the language of queer folks I know not using it, and it's got more positive connotations elsewhere?). maybe together with the "violent" thing it just rang as "this person had a shaved head and there was nonconventional sex in it - how threatening!". but obv i don't assume anyone on ilx would come at a discussion of fever ray with that in mind, so i should give you a little more credit!