Fever Ray (2CD/DVD) [Deluxe Edition]

Fever Ray - Fever Ray (2CD/DVD) [Deluxe Edition]

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Artist: Fever Ray
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2009-11-23
Music Label: Mute
Soundtracks:

Music CD 1

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
Sranger Than Kindness New
Here Before New

Music CD 2

If I had a Heart [Live In Lulea]
Triangle Walks [Live In Lulea]
Concrete Walls [Live In Lulea]
Seven [Live In Lulea]
I'm not done [Live In Lulea]
Now's The Only Time I Know [Live In Lulea]
Keep The Streets Empty For Me [Live In Lulea]
Dry and Dusty [Live In Lulea]
Stranger Than Kindness [Live In Lulea]
When I Grow Up [Live In Lulea]
Here Before [Live In Lulea]
Coconut [Live In Lulea]

Music CD 3

If I Had a Heart video [DVD]
When I Grow Up video [DVD]
Triangle Walks video [DVD]
Seven video [DVD]
Stranger Than Kindness video [DVD]
Fever Ray Tour Trailer video [DVD]

Music reviews of Fever Ray (2CD/DVD) [Deluxe Edition]

Music Review: Out of this world
Rating: 5 Stars

I had heard the "If I Had a Heart" single in December of last year and had been completely floored, not only by Karin Dreijer Andersson's organic departure from the icier beats of the The Knife (her former work with brother, Olof) but by her darker, almost Shamanistic approach to her new solo work. But Heart was only a mere teaser of Dreijer Andersson's affinity for the dark, ground-down sound that I would quickly be introduced to.

Childhood frustration, anxiety and gender conflict appear to be major themes for Dreijer Andersson On "Concrete Walls" Andersson attempts to create a picture of a confined space where she battles with her own femininity--with her thick organic voice, layered with a distortion in a lower register to represent masculinity. While being seductively strangled by the tentacles of her own synthetic, woman-made beats, its clear; Dreijer Andersson doesn't want to be considered masculine or feminine, but rather simply, a voice.

The entire tracklisting of the debut album is near perfect as far is sequencing goes and the DVD set is accompanied by two covers (Nick Cave's "Stranger Than Kindness" and Vashti Bunyan's "Here Before") Especially captivating is "I'm not done" an anthemic tune, resembling a sci-fi version of Enya's "Boadicea" with the exception that the song is not so much a spooky new-age track, but rather a gender-themed war cry--with lyrics so epically audacious, they sound like a face-off between Andersson and some universal power.

When displacement can be this beautiful, it makes us question our idea of beauty. Isn't that what art is supposed to do? And that is exactly what Dreijer Andersson has done with Fever Ray. Made art.

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Description of Fever Ray (2CD/DVD) [Deluxe Edition]

Special Edition includes two bonus tracks on the audio disc and a bonus DVD with five music videos! Fever Ray is the title, of both the project and album by Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson, one half of The Knife. It s the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out following a handful of incredible live shows. Their first two albums did well in their Swedish homeland; their third, Silent Shout, went to Number One, won six Swedish Grammys, underlined their reputation as an act capable of the truly extraordinary and was pronounced the best record of 2006 by Pitchfork. After having her second child and eight months of the most productive daydreaming later, Karin had a batch of new songs and the raw materials for the production of Fever Ray. Unsure how to get them over the finishing line, she took half to Christoffer Berg (who mixed The Knife s work), half to Stockholm production duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid for a final brush and tickle. The result is Fever Ray, an album that, while recognisably the work of the same artist, is dramatically different from The Knife. It s still constructed on electronic foundations and embellished with traditional instrumentation (guitar here, congas there). One thing s for sure--in a country with a wealth of leftfield pop artists, Karin Dreijer Andersson sounds like no one but herself. Constantly inventive, restlessly emotive, Fever Ray swaggers, broods, intrigues and dazzles without ever making concessions to the soap opera demands of modern media. Fever Ray works its magic. Here s your chance to fall under its spell.

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