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

Yeah, totally; I was convinced it or "Dry and Dusty" was going to be the third single.

Sweden. Fucking... Sweden.

They get Fever Ray, we get... La Roux and Florence and the fucking Machine.

My head is in a claustrophobic place right now that this album totally matches. I want to listen to this album when it's cold, all wrapped up in bed with the lights out.

This probably says more about me than the album (speaking of which, isn't she Finnish?) but I don't find it so much creepy or claustrophobic as I find it coldly comforting and wistful, dipping into whimsy from time to time; I have a similar reaction to The Knife, only instead of cold distance I get tons and tons of warmth.

She's not Finnish, she's Swedish. She's got a recognizable Scandinavian accent in her English that reminds me a bit of Björk's accent. A Finnish accent sounds rather different.

oops, I've been telling ppl the wrong thing for a while then

It sounds totally claustrophobic to me, but probably because the lyrics remind me of the desperate tweets of friends trapped in apartments with small children endlessly hungry and demanding attention and more more more. But that could just be me and my fears.

The 7" cover upthread is from a collection of photographs of the Kwakiutl and Navajo tribes taken by Edward S. Curtis around 1914. I love them, I uploaded almost all of them at flickr some months ago you can see them here if you're interested (mixed with a bunch of crap I thought interesting at the time: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11840520@N04/sets/72157601576405206/)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2652408564_ec937d726f.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3283/2652407582_25fe3cbc0c.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2652408242_3dde8cda75.jpg

Max's covers are the best tho

Yes, the artwork is amazing.

I didn't know Max also shot Indians! Impressive!

that's how the west was won

the preferred nomenclature is "native american", tuomas.

Vashti cover live (via P4K):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UskaHWABWyc

Is this Max's work as well?

http://i29.tinypic.com/2zrgkf6.jpg

looks like it tbh, all the signature trademarks are there

the martyn remix of "seven" is so great, that bassline!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 10:00 (1 week ago)

bears repeating

http://i31.tinypic.com/10hm2yu.jpg http://i31.tinypic.com/10hm2yu.jpg

sorry :-(

suggest bearn

at this moment "Coconut" is the greatest song ever recorded

just for the record i never once shot an indian, or a native american

LOVE this. Still. Freezing cold but warmly enveloping you at the simultaneously.

Um. Try to not read that "at the" there :-)

Still one of the best cd's of the year. I've listened to this more now than "Silent Shout".

Front row at Webster Hall last night. Fucking amazing. The most inspiring thing I have seen in at least 3 years and probably one of the top 3 or 4 gigs I have ever been to. A LOT of other bands have a LOT to answer for. I mean, FR is an electronic act and yet the show, even just on a musical level, was more powerful than that of most bands, even though the latter have more flexibility in terms of improvisation, covers, etc.

As intimate as the music is, it REALLY benefitted from a large soundsystem. Granted, I was right in front of the subs, but that was the most bass pressure I have ever felt. The costumes, the lasers, etc., were really great, but I also appreciated the thirty of forty sticks on insence they lit. They really paid attention to all sense.

Anyone in NYC who can afford to take a few hours off from their day job (if applicable) should really try and go down there this afternoon and hang out. Most venues release tickets at the last minutes, even for sold-out shows. It worked for me yesterday, and I didn't have to pay more than face value (a little under $40).

seeing this tomorrow!!

jeez, I was a dick on this thread...

Just got back from seeing Fever Ray at Metropolis. Dead centre, maybe 10 feet back...WHOA. Loved the album already, but seeing them live completely transformed a lot of the songs for me. The incense and the smog created a murky and relaxed vibe that lent itself to a vague sense of menace at different points in the show. I didn't really expect the show to be capable of impacting me that much more than the album, but it augments the effect of the music in all the right ways.

REALLY benefitted from a large soundsystem. Granted, I was right in front of the subs, but that was the most bass pressure I have ever felt

OTM. The inside of my chest cavity was vibrating. It was incredible.

holy shit that rocked.

best visual presentation i've seen at a concert since daft punk rolled thru town. vintage lamps & lasers = GOOD LOOK.

I need to stop reading this thread - so jealous of all you guys

seeing her/them on Monday in SF! Serious question: Should I get stoned?

so psyched to see them

^ strongly considering going to this as well. and if it's anything even remotely like the knife's live show then YES you should get VERY stoned

To be honest I think the massive bass sound they used while playing live was kinda too much. It drowned some of the subtleties in their sound, plus if you were close to the stage you were forced to wear earplugs (a few poor folks on the Helsinki gig had come without earplugs, and they had to run much further from the stage when FR began playing), which made the sound even more muddled. Moving further from the stage wouldn't have been problem, except that their stage lighting was such that you had be close to it too see anything properly. So it felt they hadn't really thought about that aspect of their show. I could understand using those kind of bass frequencies if they were playing dance music where subtleties aren't that important, but with their type of music there was simply too much bass.

lol why would u NOT get stoned

Because any music sounds good when you're stoned, and I wanted to fully enjoy this particular music.

Plus I don't really puff these days, it's been over a year since I last did it.

damn I totally slept on seeing them at webster!

i thought the massive bass was amazing

and i also though you weren't really meant to see them clearly beyond silhouettes

blaming a show for having massive sound is kinda ridic imo

if you really want to stand close, get a good pair of fitted earplugs

if not, stand back

pretty simple

blaming a show for having massive sound is kinda ridic imo

I'm not blaming them for massive sound, I'm blaming them for emphasizing the lower register to such extent that it drowned part of the stuff that's happening in the upper register, even though the upper register is what's most interesting about them, not the bass. If I just want to experience massive bass I go to a drum'n'bass club. With a non-dancey synth pop act FR I was expecting something more nuanced, but the bass effectively dominated the whole gig.

i loved it, it was so unexpected and ominous! and it sounded so fantastic. horse for courses i guess.

i mean fuck i was HAPPY it didn't sound like a typical "non-dancey synth pop act"! it was different and awesome!

i hear where tuomas is coming from cuz it was sort of like that when i saw them - the bass meant i couldnt really hear any of the high end

i could

yeah i had no problems with the sound at the London show, i just couldn't SEE ANYTHING :(

i think i was standing in a bad place, shld have just moved

I saw Fever Ray in June and thought it was pretty terrible and the sound was ultra-muddy, was really disappointed. Otoh thought the Knife was an awesome show when I was them few years back.

lol saw not was

i was never The Knife iirc.