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Fever Ray by: Fever Ray

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Rating: - perfect

I'm a huge knife fan, and i wondered if something would be lost or gained by one of their solo projects.

This is the most perfect of all knife connected albums. Balence between melody, and ambience is perfect. Beats are more subtle, with no out and out dance floor fillers.

I've played it most days now for 3 weeks.

its ace

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Rating: - One Armed Scissor

Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife fame. She and her brother, for the most part, make credible to excellent oddball electro pop. She does the singing and filters it through a highly identifiable pitch shifter. Fever Ray is like that, only less so. It would appear that half of The Knife does a one-armed scissor make. The album lacks her brother's sequencer skills and their combined synergy.

This eponymous effort collects ten morsels of dark, atmospheric, ambient electro-pop to create an anti-dinner party sound, Andersson's pitch shifting ever-present. The album is listenable and approaches enjoyable, but it is also uneventful. There is too great a reliance on the vocal at the cost of the music, which, despite its Knife-like squeaks and pops, gently meanders for the majority of the record. It lacks the thrust one might expect.

Album highlight is probably `Triangle Walks', which clacks along nicely in its beats, drips in its sequences and combines with an enviable, near-Oriental overlay. Andersson seems most at home on this track. She seems woefully absent on the rage-inducing `Keep The Streets Empty For Me', which inadvisably attempts to introduce the panpipe into contemporary electronica.

Blunted, Andersson has tried, but not achieved, the same as her sibling collaboration. Proof then that two heads are better than one.

Rating: - One of the albums of the year?

Basically if you are looking for something different from the rest of the music out there at the moment then this is a must. Don't be expecting a dancey-electronic album more ambient.

Rating: - could be The Knife

If this record had The Knife as the artist on the front no one would have batted an eye. It is a slower The Knife recored, I would say.
So you know what you are going to get: something interesting; but not much for the postman to whistle.
Good work, but quite "samey". We need something different next time.

Rating: - Atmospheric, not background music

Smooth, old-fashioned electronica. The sound is reminiscent of Jan Hammer, Kraftwerk and the synth washes from John Carpenter movies like "The Thing" and "The Fog".

By no means unpleasant, but it isn't Dinner-party soundtrack material by any stretch.

I don't hear any "Bladerunner" either.

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