Fever Ray

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AlbumJan 13 / 200910 songs, 48m 7s
Art Pop Synthpop
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Three years after the landmark Silent Shout, the Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson returns as Fever Ray. Fans of the Knife will not be disappointed.

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It’s clear now which end of The Knife features the blood-spattered blade. Karin Dreijer Andersson took a break from her better-known project in order to get some air, but her eponymous debut as Fever Ray is countless times more claustrophobic and creepy than Silent Shout. It also holds its own against that incredibly…

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One half of post-techno outfit The Knife, Fever Ray's debut is icy but intimate, experimental but quietly infectious, says James Dalrymple

At first, it's a little difficult to determine where the Knife ends and Fever Ray begins.

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<p>This solo album by one half of the Knife is endearingly bleak, reckons <strong>Graeme Thomson</strong></p>

The album sustains a remarkable degree of structural tension over the course of its brief song cycle.

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Animal Collective and the Knife have virtually nothing in common sonically, but the sequenced campfire shouts of the former and the latter’s chilly...

<p>This doesn't resemble dance music so much as something from the weirder fringes of 80s pop, says <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong></p>

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Album Reviews: Fever Ray - Fever Ray

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