Fever Ray has come in as Last.fm’s 34th most Scrobbled artist of 2009 with 4,007,356 plays from 803,456 listeners:
http://www.last.fm/bestof/2009/chart/32
“We compiled the list by looking at scrobbles for albums released between 1st October 2008 and 16th November 2009. We took out live albums, greatest hits collections, EP’s and singles before pulling them together into the lean, mean format you see before your eyes.”
“The latest is “Keep the Streets Empty for Me,” a phantasmagoric neo-noir that briefly suggests Riisian muckraking by way of Dogme 95 realism, but which the directors, Jens Klevje and Fabian Svensson, say draws more from Jungian symbology and Japanese horror films. “On the blogs, people have mentioned ‘The Road’ as a reference point,” Klevje says. “It’s the dystopia feeling.””
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“Ljusshowen har en förmåga att ta andan ur publiken och bildar en perfekt symbios med musiken där spår som When I grow up, kvällens främsta, får en ytterligare dimension, ja näst intill en överdos av dramatik. Det råder inget som helst tvivel om att Fever Ray var det skarpaste svenska musikuttrycket på en livescen under 2009. Om detta nu är slutet på Fever Ray och början på ett nytt kapitel för The Knife återstår att se. Dreijer-syskonens vägar är ju så genialiskt outgrundliga.’
http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/scen/artikel_3841231.svd
Fever Ray is nominated in three categories by Swedish public service radio: Pop, Dance and Rookie!
Photography by Annika Aschberg
NPR‘s All Songs Considered have nominated Fever Ray as one of their favorite albums of the year, you can vote below and leave a comment on the NPR website here.
Live in Luleå is out to buy digitally across Europe NOW and as part of the release of Fever Ray Deluxe Edition in the USA on 24th November.
1. If I had a Heart
2. Triangle Walks
3. Concrete Walls
4. Seven
5. I’m Not Done
6. Now’s The Only Time I Know
7. Keep The Streets Empty For Me
8. Dry and Dusty
9. Stranger Than Kindness
10. When I Grow Up
11. Here Before
12. Coconut
“Every now and then you come across a musician that makes you sit and listen in awe; a musician which gives you no choice but to enter their world. Karin Dreijer Andersson is a most persuasive tour guide into the darkly dreamy world of Fever Ray.”
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“There’s a strong case to be made that Fever Ray is the Music Video Artist of the Year. For the latest clip from Knife singer Karin Dreijer Andersson’s debut solo album, we get a somber black-and-white clip featuring a fashionable homeless girl meandering through a barren cityscape. The video was directed by Jens Klevje and Fabian Svensson”
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“Fever Ray and the song Keep the Streets Empty struck us immediately with it’s fateful sound and images of abandoned suburbia begun to grow in front of our eyes. We wanted to continue the journey that started in the former videos and our ambition was to catch the feeling in a very direct and true way and create a video where dream and reality intertwine.”
Fabian and Jens
Watch the video at: Pitchfork TV
The video is directed by Jens Klevje and Fabian Svensson, a dynamic director duo in the field of artistic moving image. They are based in south of Sweden were they running the visual bureau Conjunction.se.
The video features Japanese performance artist/architect Megumi Matsubara based in Tokyo as the main character and Camilla Jernmark as the homeless girl. Lighting by Thomas Romlöv. Styling: Camilla Jernmark.
