Karin Dreijer Andersson, known as one half of the acclaimed Swedish bro & sis duo The Knife, is the mysterious and enchanting figure concealed behind the moniker of Fever Ray. Although she is always been pretty much averse to show up in public unless dressing a mask (she says "I think the music should be able to stand for itself without interfering, like what the artist looks like") , in her solo project she yields to her subconscious feelings revealing such an intense, anxious, gloomy, claustrophobic yet so luminous, magic, evocative and dreamy landscape. Wrote after her second motherhood, and produced by the trusty hands of Christoffer Berg, this work is a colorless rainbow of freezing synths and distorted voice, that flutters in the air and blurs reality into imagination, giving you the privilege to color it according with your feelings. “Half of what the songs are about is the subconscious”, she says, “ideas of things happening. A lot of it is like daydreaming, dreaming when you’re awake, but tired; a lot of stories come from that world. I try to write when I‘m in that state - I’m very bad at remembering later, so I have to do it right away”. This record has been without any doubt a must of my 2009. Buy it. One more word deserves to be spent about her video clips: "Masterpieces".
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