Fever Ray "s/t" (2009)

Whenever I listen to anything related to The Knife I can't help but feel like I'm Max in Where the Wild Things Are and these Swedish weirdos are music playing in on the island. The steel drum and tribal rhythms + dark spaced-out synths + not-of-this world vocals usually have me asking, "What am I? Where am I?" Well I'll tell you, you're a little boy in a wolf suit and you're running around the motherfucking jungle.
With Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer Andersson drops Olof, her partner in The Knife, as well as anything that's poppy or dancey about their music. That leaves all the creepy spooky spacey stuff that impressively finds a way to create a beautiful record, that by the ears of this listener, can stand up to anything recorded by the duo. Not much of a departure here from what she's known for, not that it's a bad thing, it's a psychedelic progression of 'Silent Shout'. Kind of "Silently Shouting In Space", and it's more than enough to hold any fan over for the next The Knife release. No date on that yet, though it's been reported that it's going to be an opera based on the ideas and theories of Darwin.

Already being touted as what will be one of the video's of the year, FR delivers a magical haunted quest with "If I Had A Heart." Fuck Buttons remixed it, and it's streaming at the Stereogum Blog and will be released as a b-side on the 7" coming out on MuteMute next month with the LP to follow. Check the comments :)