Hey Hey Fever Ray
September 2, 2010 Posted by admin at 3:36 pm
Everybody loves a good on-stage get up. None more so than Fever Ray – who have recruited Andreas Nilsson (the director of their spectaculat 2009 live show and the ‘If I Had A Heart‘ and ‘Stranger Than Kindness‘ video clips) in a collaboration to put needle to thread – designing the bands performance costumes for 2010. Leaking the ‘first look’ pics onto the interwebs this week, these things look totally fresh! Kind of wondering what the rest of the collection has instore for eager punters lucky enough to catch on of the shows scheduled throughout the UK in the coming weeks.
Continuing the fever-pitch, the band also launched a pre-order of a ‘Mercy Street‘ 7″ and new tee’s (also designed by Andreas Nilsson). It’s a bundled kit, so if your keen its available from the bands e-store HERE
Fever Ray At Coachella 2010!
April 21, 2010 Posted by Eva at 2:29 pm
Dressed like techno druids in all black and pale white face paint with a stage set up of blinking vintage lamps, Fever Ray’s set at Coachella 2010 was typically visceral and totally unique. Lasers overhead caught the smoke in the air, transforming the stage into a swirling neon ocean. The music hewed pretty close to the low subliminal brood of Fever Ray’s self-titled debut, but with a few playful twists like extra synth loops and tom-tom drums.
With 70-minutes of macabre lighting, terrifying costumes and sweet-smelling incense smoke this wasn’t just another tranced-out DJ set: it was a horror film-inspired installation piece that celebrated an extremely productive twelve months for Karin which included the Fever Ray releases of ‘Fever Ray’ and ‘Live in Lulea’, as well as The Knife in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock’s electronic opera ‘Tomorrow, in a Year’.
Pre-Order new The Knife album and recieve instant digital download…
February 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 5:42 pm
Fans of The Knife rejoice: when you order a physical copy of their brand new album Tomorrow, in a Year (in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock), JB Hifi will also throw in the entire digital album via instant download! That means that even though it’s not out physically until March 5, you’ll be able to listen to all of the tracks from this 2CD set straight away!
To pre-order the album from JB Hifi, click here. And for more info on the release, click here.
Fever Ray: coming to America…
May 11, 2009 Posted by Eva at 12:27 pm
“Andersson holds her audience utterly spellbound” – Drowned In Sound
“…pulls you inexorably into the darkness of her world” - The Guardian
After a string of acclaimed live shows around Europe, Fever Ray is heading over to the US and Canada in September/October. Venues will include NYC’s iconic Webster Hall, where Andersson’s other project, The Knife, played two sold out dates for their US debut.
Karin will be supported by a 4 piece band, with visuals masterminded by Swedish multimedia artist Andreas Nilsson who designed The Knife’s live show and directed the creepy video for If I Had a Heart.
USA and Canada Tour Dates:
Sept 28 – Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Sept 29 – Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Oct 1 – Metropolis, Montreal
Oct 2 – Kool Haus, Toronto
Oct 3 – Metro, Chicago
Oct 5 – Grand Ballroom, San Francisco
Oct 7 – Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles
Hardships!
May 1, 2009 Posted by Eva at 1:13 pm
“If you have to describe ‘Hardships!’ I’ll tell you that it’s a collection of modern work songs for all times. That it contains shimmering in-preparedness-poetry and raw R’n'B, in a way you never heard it before. I want ‘Hardships!’ to feel simple as salt and pepper on your tongue. And sparkling as a burning matchstick that you can burn your fingertips upon! This record is about motherhood, and the fight within!”
Jenny Wilson released her celebrated debut Love And Youth in 2005 with the hit singles Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward and Summertime, The Roughest Time. The album received several awards, including the P3 Guld award for Pop in 2005, and attracted extensive international attention leading to much appreciated tours of Scandinavia, Europe and Australia.
In 2006, after the birth of her second child, Wilson began plotting her sophomore release Hardships! Like her Scandanavian contemporaries Annie, Robyn, and Fever Ray, Wilson was wholly responsible for the sound of the album, recording and producing Hardships! in her own The Gold Medal Studio in Stockholm. Wilson also decided to launch her own label after releasing her debut on The Knife’s Rabid Records, so she established Gold Medal Recordings under exclusive licence to Playground Music.
With the iconic quirky pop sensibilities we grew to love on Love And Youth, Hardships! is a joyous, poignant and idiosyncratic collection of mature pop melodies. Described as “absorbing” by Uncut and “fantastically enjoyable” by Dazed and Confused, Hardships! is indicative of a shift in contemporary pop writing towards more considered and intelligent production.
With guest appearances from Scandinavia’s finest including Mapei, El Perro Del Mar, and Simone Rubi, this is
an album that is worth the reward of repeated listens.
Hardships! is out now on etcetc.
Tracklisting:
- The Path
- Like A Fading Rainbow
- Clattering Hooves
- The Wooden Chair
- Porcelain Castle
- Anchor Made Of Gold
- Bad Waters
- Only Here For The Fight
- Pass Me The Salt
- Motherhood
- Hardships
- We Had Everything
- Strings Of Grass
The Knife do Darwin…
April 22, 2009 Posted by Eva at 11:39 am
Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson has added yet another string to her already impressive bow.
Along with Danish performance collective, Hotel Pro Forma, Karin’s band The Knife have helped to create Tomorrow, in a Year – A Darwin Opera. No, it’s not a tribute to Australia’s youngest city. It’s an experimental performance piece featuring elements of electronica pop, classical opera and performance, commemorating the 150 year anniversary of Charles Darwin’s influential The Origin of Species. Premiering in Copenhagen in September, the production has no dates scheduled outside of Denmark as yet.
And as if that isn’t enough Euro-envy for our Fever Ray fans, may we direct you towards a few gushing live reviews from Fever Ray’s European dates.
Fever Ray coming to a European city near you
March 31, 2009 Posted by admin at 9:46 am
10 Apr Motel Mozaique, Rotterdam
11 Apr The Royal Festival Hall, London
20 Jun Sonar By Night, Barcelona
03 Jul Roskilde Festival, Roskilde
04 Jul Arvika Festival, Arvika
12 Aug Öyafestivalen, Oslo, Oslo
14 Aug Way Out West, Göteborg
16 Aug Flow, Helsinki
Fever Ray Tour 2009 from Fever Ray on Vimeo.
Fever Ray on Pitchfork
March 31, 2009 Posted by admin at 9:38 am
Influential independent online magazine Pitchfork has reviewed Fever Ray‘s self-titled debut album, giving the record 8.1 out of 10!
Below is an excerpt from the review, which says of the album – “committed listens will reveal this to be as nuanced and as rich of a production as anything either Dreijer has done.”
Pitchfork Best New Music, March 20, 2009
“The highlights are many. Opener “If I Had a Heart” is a shivering, timely meditation on greed, immorality, and lust for power that dovetails nicely with AIG and Madoff (”This will never end cause I want more/ More, give me more, give me more”); “I’m Not Done” is a pressurized squall that culminates with Karin dueting with a helium-voiced version of herself; while seven-minute closer “Coconut” rumbles on a pattern of synths and staccato drums before a ceremonious wall of voices arrive at the midpoint to march it to a close. Except, “close” implies it was written: the more time you spend with Fever Ray, the more you become convinced that these songs aren’t written so much as they’re temporarily let out. They’re too starved, too eerie, and too transfigured to have been anything but.”
‘When I Grow Up’ video online now
February 17, 2009 Posted by admin at 9:40 am
The video for When I Grow Up by Fever Ray has premiered this morning at feverray.com
When I Grow Up is a slow-burning, beat-driven and strangely optimistic number characterised by Karin’s inimitable lyrical style, name-checking forestry, boomerangs, crab claws and cucumbers in a surprisingly domestic picture. The video itself, directed by Martin De Thurah, is a melting pot of references from David Lynch to Stephen King’s Carrie, with a profound feeling of voyeurism and foreboding.
Speaking about the conception of the video, De Thurah had this to say:
“The initial idea was about something coming out of water – something which was about to take form – a state turning into something new. And a double headed creature not deciding which way to turn. But the idea had to take a simpler form, to let the song grow by itself. I remembered a photo I took in Croatia two years ago, a swimming pool with its shining blue color in a grey foggy autumn landscape.”
Fever Ray NME Magazine RADAR
February 13, 2009 Posted by admin at 10:58 am
Fever Ray has just been featured in NME Magazine as an ‘Artist to Watch’ in RADAR, the magazine’s monthly feature for profiling exciting new talent.
Doesn’t that look amazing?!
It is the first time Radar has run across a double page in the magazine – NME’s editor thought the image was so stunning, they didn’t want to put it on just one single page!
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