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

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!

scrolling upthread also i'm reminded that this material landed differently with me than a lot of ilxors so you can also freely disregard, i might be bringing other stuff to the table.

The show I saw on the Plunge tour was very good and very fun. She also played some cool rearrangements of tracks from the debut so I'm glad they'll see the light of day on the live album.

The polar opposite of the stunning show they put on for the first album.

yeah i definitely preferred the show from the first album but the second one was a blast and made me appreciate the 2nd album much more

Never listen to album 2 any more. Still love the first one. Am sad.

I'm Not Done from the live album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjDNsjcT70

little after the first album sticks, but I am thankful for her collab with Shinedoe who's been my favorite techno person the last few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_-YQqlqnCs

new song "what they call us" that's actually just secretly a knife song (!) because olof co-wrote & produced it

if you can't hear it yet it's a time zones thing & it'll be out tomorrow

cool! i can't hear it yet but looking forward to it now

it's nothing special but i like it more than pretty much all of plunge

The drop in quality between the two Fever Ray albums is one of the great tragedies of the age.

Plunge remixes > Plunge imo

also Deep Cuts and Silent Shout still beyond reproach and I can forgive almost anything of any person responsible for those records

I belatedly listened to Shaken-Up Versions for the first time recently and, wow, what a fantastic album that makes.

Available now on Spotify in the US. Sounded exactly like I imagined based on description/the "Wanna Sip" Olof remix/"Features Creatures" remix.

Youtube, up for US people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNeXWdhiX1E

i guess it's a very knife move to in effect reunite for a fever ray track (i hope it's the whole album) without making a fuss about it

as the lead single it's not exciting but it could easily be a very solid album track on a more direct silent shout sequel than we ever got and just that is enough i suppose

(though the first fever ray album is of course excellent and shaking the habitual is still partially brilliant despite being a self-indulgent mess of an album)

It's a pretty solid single imo. But I've been listening to a lot of very boring ambient pop today so almost everything else sounds exciting to me right now.

Thanks for the updated link, sort of forgot. Agree that this sounds more like a good album track than a single. Nonetheless, new Fever Ray sounds amazing to me.

Single sounds great to me

More new music tomorrow, this time its a collaboration with Seb Gainsborough AKA Vessel:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckve25eMMC_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

(Big fan of vessel here, really intrigued by this one)

Not the guy from David Devant and his Spirit Wife, then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CacWHzB-Dt4

"carbon dioxide" is decent too

album radical romantics out march 10

olof co-wrote/produced 4 tracks, other contributors include trent reznor & atticus ross (!), nídia, aasthma, and vessel (who co-produced "carbon dioxide")

these massive gaps between single drops and release dates are crazy to me

i'm just going to assume it's impatience with vinyl delays

really looking forward to hearing what the nine inch nails collab sounds like

I really like both singles so far. Excited for this record but yeah, March seems like an eternity from now

Vessel is such a great fit for Fever Ray (as is Trent of course! Listen to "That's What I Get" and "We Share our Mother's Health" back to back).

"What They Call Us" is good (and as someone mentioned upthread, more album track than single) but nothing exciting. "Carbon Dioxide", OTOH, is phenomenal.

"kandy" is pretty nice

I love it, sounds like an update to old Knife sound. Caribbean goth vibe.

So far I think this album’s singles are very promising. I wasn’t all in on her previous album but this one is reeling me back in.

it's my favourite of these new ones but man i wish there was a chorus

As a solo artist She’s on/off about doing chorus in her songs no? I’m trying to think about some of the songs on the s/t and I think most of them set a mood and stay fixed without a clear chorus

there is a chorus it's just not much of a shift

it really picks up right where silent shout left off (even uses one of the same synths according to the press release), i'm really glad they're working with olof again (if only it was for the full album though)

i didn't like plunge much at all but this album is shaping up much better

I was not aware of their pronouns sorry, had no idea Olof is back, excited to hear this one.

s/t has some amazing choruses but I can't imagine we're ever getting an album like that again

yeah olof produced "kandy", "what they call us" and two other tracks on the album

Love this, not sure why they break up the Knife and then release something like this?

S/t is a 10/10 so I doubt they’ll ever release something on that level ever again.

it's an extremely knife move to reunite in all but name for a bunch of ostensibly solo tracks

i still kinda feel like they never fully explored their potential, as good as their output was, i'm very glad to have them back in whatever capacity

kandy is super great, very knife-y and compulsively replayable

For the record I do think Kandy has a chorus:

She laid me down and whispered
All girls want kandy
Can you bring me back
All girls want kandy

album is pretty good, big step up from plunge

first four tracks make quite a nice little knife ep

Yes! Not as good as album 1, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than album 2.