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

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.

LOVE it

I'm way into it, too

Good car music.

I think it's more "fun" than album one? But I need to revisit

The two non-single Olof tracks being better than the singles is a really nice surprise.

I think it's hard to compare hearing this fresh to 14 years of the self-titled, but I think the quality gap is pretty minimal. Certainly, there's no duds.

I'm loving the new album front to back — and Plunge was underrrated!

This is sounding great. I hate that album cover though, the singles artwork was great, don’t get why they chose a photo of riff raff for the album cover.

agree about the cover right down to my first thought being "hey, it's Riff Raff"

also agree about Plunge being underrated (though I think I prefer the remixes)

Cover, visuals and “persona” are just urgh

I think she's going for making you uncomfortable, no?