Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson, one half of The Knife, is set to release her debut self-titled album on CD/LP March 24, 2009 on Mute and this week for digital download.
Fever Ray is the title of both project and album. 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, and 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 productive daydreaming, 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) and half to Stockholm production duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid. The result is Fever Ray, an album that, while recognizably the work of the same artist, is dramatically different from The Knife.
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Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart
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SOURCE: Mute
