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.”