Fever Ray - Fever Ray (CD)

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Fever Ray - Fever Ray (CD)

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Released: 11/23/09
Music Genre: Dance
Media Format: Audio CD
: NTSC

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At first, it's a little difficult to determine where the Knife ends and Fever Ray begins. On paper, it's clear -- the Knife is the project of Karin Dreijer and her brother Olof, while Fever Ray is Karin with co-producers Christoffer Berg, Van Rivers, and the Subliminal Kid -- but the differences aren't as distinct when listening to Fever Ray the first few times. Initially, the album's dark, frosty atmosphere feels like a continuation of the Knife's brilliant Silent Shout, and the oddly bouncy rhythms on songs like "Triangle Walks" and "Coconut" recall the duo's exotic-yet-frozen Nordic/Caribbean fusion. Eventually, though, Fever Ray reveals itself as far darker and more intimate than anything by the Knife. The Knife's spooky impulses are usually tempered by vivid pop instincts that Fever Ray replaces with a consistently eerie mood, particularly on "Concrete Walls," which feels like an even grimmer cousin of Silent Shout's "From Off to On." However, Fever Ray's mix of confessional lyrics and chilly, blatantly synthetic and often harsh sounds make this album as successful an electronic singer/songwriter album as Bjork's Homogenic. These are some of the most alluring and disturbing songs Dreijer has been involved in making: the excellent album opener "If I Had a Heart" explores possibly inhuman need with a churning, almost subliminal synth and murky bass driving Dreijer's pitch-shifted vocals (which sound more like a different part of her psyche than a different character in the song); when her untreated voice comes in, keening "will I ever ever reach the floor?" she sounds even more frail and desperate by comparison. The rest of Fever Ray follows suit, offering fragile portraits and sketches that walk the fine line between intimate and insular. Dreijer further expands on the storytelling skills she developed on Silent Shout: the characters in her songs feel even more resonant and unique, especially on "When I Grow Up," which is as fascinatingly fragmented as a child's train of thought, skipping from sentiments like "I'm very good with plants" to "I've never liked that sad look by someone who wants to be loved by you." She also has an eye for unusual details, as on "Seven"s "November smoke/And your toes go numb." It all comes together on the haunting "Now's the Only Time I Know," where the low end of Dreijer's voice sounds especially vulnerable and the lyrics fill in just enough to be tantalizing. At times, Fever Ray threatens to become a little too mysterious, but it never sounds less than intriguing, from the layers of claps and castanets that make up the beat on "I'm Not Done" to "Keep the Streets Empty for Me"s almost imperceptible guitars. With almost tangible textures and a striking mood of isolation and singularity, Fever Ray is a truly strange but riveting album. [The deluxe edition of Fever Ray includes a DVD with the videos for "If I Had a Heart," "When I Grow Up," "Triangle Walks" and "Seven," as well as Live in Lulea, a live album recorded in Dreijer's native Sweden that features radically reworked covers of Vashti Bunyan's "Here Before" and Nick Cave and Anita Bryant's "Stranger Than Kindness." All of these extras enhance this already rich debut.] Heather Phares.

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Artist

Fever Ray

Number of Discs

Disc Layers

Media Content Format

Album

Label / Studio

EMM/MUTE

Year of release

2009

Tracklisting:
Disc 1:

If I Had a Heart
When I Grow Up
Dry and Dusty
Seven
Triangle Walks
Concrete Walls
Now's the Only Time I Know
I'm Not Done
Keep the Streets Empty for Me
Coconut
Stranger Than Kindness
Here Before

Disc 2:

If I Had a Heart [Live]
Triangle Walks [Live]
Concrete Walls [Live]
Seven [Live]
I'm Not Done [Live]
Now's the Only Time I Know [Live]
Keep the Streets Empty for Me [Live]
Dry and Dusty [Live]
Stranger Than Kindness [Live]
When I Grow Up [Live]
Here Before [Live]
Coconut [Live]

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