Fever Ray by: Fever Ray
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Publisher: Rabid
Release date: 30th March, 2009
Media: Audio CD
Format
- Enhanced
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Track List
- 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
- If I Had A Heart
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- ''If I had a voice I would sing''
This is haunting, evocative stuff. Karin Dreijer Andersson digitally manipulates her voice throughout the album to sound sluggish and weary, high and low-pitched, but occasionally as on 'When I Grow Up', her real and strikingly beautiful voice pierces through the murk and establishes an innovative use of the voice as instrument. The lyrics are abstract as though they are constructed dream-like, and the line 'We talk about love, we talk about dishwasher tablets, illness and we dream about heaven' in the song 'Seven' becomes something deeply profound and tragic. Initially the songs blend together but subsequent listens reveal layers of complexity perhaps disguised by the mid-tempo pace of the album. Unlike The Knife's more danceable pulsing beats from 'Silent Shout', this is slower, more meditative, but ultimately just as eerie and starved of emotion. If anything the cold and hollow synths and percussion here betray a sense of sadness and a search for something tangibly human. 'Dry and Dusty' ends with the line 'And I long for every moment' which to me is as emotionally telling and relatable as it is foreboding and isolating. I didn't feel disturbed by this music as much as I felt comforted, because the detachment on display tells me there's not just 'happy' or 'depressing' music, there's a whole spectrum of emotions present in these ten tracks that express much more than you would expect. This is best summed up by 'Keep The Streets Empty For Me' and it's final line, 'Uncover our heads and reveal our souls', and here Dreijer Andersson does just that.
Rating: 
- Dark, brooding stuff
As virtually everyone else has remarked already this is dark stuff, really the sort of music that you want to sit and give your full attention too - and its well worth the effort if you do. Get out the headphones though, it'd be a waste otherwise.
Rating: - A powerfull deluxe edition
That's a great edition of the album. The extra DVD with the videos gives a very good impression of Fever Ray's works.
Rating: - Astonishing and accomplished.
This truly is an amazing album. An intricate and textured tapestry of electronic soundscapes, so rich yet at times sparse its as if synth didnt happen till now.
Think Depeche Mode crossed with Portishead with a sprinkiling of Joy Division and Heaven 17 and your not even close! But on the right tracks. Buy it it will enrich your life forever more.
Rating: - Karin Doing Her Thing
This is a great album. It is musically and lyrically masterful. If you are a fan of Karin Dreirer Andersson, you are going to love this. This isn't a label company product, you aren't going to get two or three decent songs and a ton of filler. Every single track on this album is good, and the videos are beautiful and moving.
It's worth every penny for collectors value alone.
The music and film on it is worth much more.
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