…for best Dance act was given to Fever Ray. Check the acceptance speech here.

The collaboration between The Knife, Mt. Sims and Planningtorock is now available for listening and pre-order:

Listen to the full album on theknife.net >>
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Full info on the Rabid Records Tomorrow, In A Year website >>

The Knife, Karin’s project with bother Olof, are to release the studio version of the opera ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, on the 1st March 2010

Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme. They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds.

The first track from the album, called Colouring Of Pigeons, is free to download from the knife’s website here. You can also sign up for more news about The Knife there.

For more information about the album see the full introduction on theknife.net here.

Karin on Colouring Of Pigeons: “The title is taken from Charles Darwin’s studies of pigeons, a breakthrough of his examinations, coming home after The Beagle trip, it is when when he started to discover the genetics transfered within generations. It is a track maximizing the results of his studies. I thought of the “diversity of everything” something we have discussed a lot with Hotel Pro Forma, and a non-hierarchical way of seeing things. All the small details he studied and made notes of, like a pile of ants, an ants hill. Also a feeling of seeing things for the first time, overwhelming and shaken, but not afraid.”

Fever Ray is The Guardian’s music critics’ second favorite album of the year!

“The stage name, the costumes, the masks, the voice distortion – all these things contributed to the mystery and, to some degree, the artistic distance created by Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson. But the themes on the Knife frontwoman’s debut solo album were unerringly close to home, and the music was so visceral that you couldn’t help but be drawn into her isolated world.”

Read more here. See the full list on the Music Blog.

Well respected Electronic Music site Resident Advisor has named Fever Ray as its second favorite album of 2009:

“You read it all often, but the word that resonated most with Fever Ray was “ritual.” Maybe it was the beat on album opener “If I Had a Heart,” which plodded softly while a theme played over and over and over again. Or perhaps it’s Karin Dreijer Andersson’s renowned live shows, which made such haunting use of lamps and costumes. Whatever it was, we spent 2009 ready and willing to practice it.”

The mix is available to stream on the BBC iPlayer now for the next 7 days. Click here to listen back now! More information at the 6 Music website.

Winter Solstice Mix 2009

“the winter solstice occurs some time between December 21 and December 22 each year in the northern hemisphere, during either the shortest day or longest night of the year. Though the winter solstice lasts an instant, the term is also colloquially used like “midwinter” to refer to the full 24-hour period of the day on which it occurs.”

1. Laurie Anderson - White Lilly
2. Electrelane - The Valleys
3. Sonic Youth - Shadow Of A Doubt
4. Plastikman - Disconnect
5. Silverbullit - Winter Coat
6. Fennesz -Transit
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg -IRM
8. Stina Nordenstam - Parliment Square (The Knife Remix)
9. Lydia Lunch -Some Boys
10. Afrirampo - Natsu Ga Kita
11. Martin Rev - Mari
12. Skriet - Fåglarna
13. Tomahawk - Omaha Dance
14. Laurie Anderson - Radar
15. Goblin - Suspiria
16. Converge - Worms Will Feed, Rats Will Feast

Fever Ray is Resident Advisor readers third favorite live act of 2009!

“Mysterious, mystical, thrilling. There was no shortage of adjectives used to describe Fever Ray’s live show in 2009. Taking its cues from Karin Dreijer Andersson’s other group, The Knife, Fever Ray performances were heavy on atmosphere, perfectly encapsulating the sense of dread and unease of the music that her band unleashed each night on stage.”

See the full list here.

iTunes USA have named Fever Ray as their favorite electronic album of 2009 in their Rewind 2009 feature.

MySpace and RCRD LBL are giving away the J-Wow remix of Now’s The Only Time I Know. Download the remix for one day only at: http://www.myspace.com/rcrdlbl

“This booming raindance exclusive comes courtesy of J-Wow of Buraka Som Sistema and transforms Fever Ray’s original occult appeal into a ghetto-tech electro ballad fit for for the stickiest of floors.”