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.”

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