Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit have covered When I Grow Up, listen below. The track will be released as the b-side to their limited 7″ single Ghost Town, out 27th September on Wichita, pre-order here, and on the iTunes download EP here.
Hi,
I want to thank everybody who has come to our performances during the last 18 months. It has been a fantastic adventure for me and an interesting time experimenting with the show illusion. I also want to thank the people who have made it possible, my band and my crew who have been extremely thorough, hard working, amazingly committed and most important; fun to hang out with. Also my management for bringing us out to see the world. I try not to mention any names but I have to say Andreas Nilsson, thank you for sharing your ideas, patience, humour and your enthusiasm. I could never imagine all this could happen when I started this project a few years ago.
Now it may sound like I’m dying or quitting but I’m not. I just don’t want to tour anymore at the moment. I have built a new studio and have work to do. Olof and I have started playing together again and I will also write music for a theatre play, “The Hour Of The Wolf” by Ingmar Bergman, which will premiere next year at Dramaten (The Royal Dramatic Theatre) in Stockholm. And spend some time in the hammock too.
So long for now!
Karin
Photo: Jörgen Ringstrand
Guardian: 4/5 For all the iciness, there was a beating heart in there
Observer: You emerge from tonight’s gig with a sense of mystery and possibility intact, something all too rare in these over-examined times.
Independent: 4/5 Her voice live can be as sharp and as sourly powerful as it is on record. Wrung through a voice transformer, as on “Concrete Walls”, it’s a growl that sounds like it’s escaped from a deep underground lair.
Resident Advisor: 5/5 A genius of singing, songwriting, musicianship and pure stage theatre, Karin Dreijer Andersson has it all, and as long as the results are like this she’s welcome to tease us with as many “farewell tours” as she likes.
Drowned In Sound: ‘Coconut’ slams great divots into my already battered skull, and by the end even the sound men are trying to rupture my senses, as the bass is turned up to a slightly comical ‘eardrum purification’ level. You just gotta love that shit.
MusicOHM: 4/5 A magnificent albeit quirky experience, a fitting accompaniment to the music’s mysterious charm.
DJMag: Cue a change in lighting to strafing lasers for the final few tracks, accompanied by echoing subterranean bass that gives even DMZ a run for their money, and you leave feeling you’ve experienced that rare thing; a music artist who genuinely justifies that title
Scotsman: The audience cheered their favourite tracks but this was a seamless performance to be absorbed as a total experience.
The Fly: Everything from the brisk beat of ‘Seven’ and the creepy sprawl of ‘Concrete Walls’ to perhaps the most obvious fan favourite, ‘When I Grow Up’, works in sync with the live visuals so perfectly you don’t know whether to dance or just stare, slack-jawed and in awe.
Fever Ray at Olympia by Oliver Peel
Fever Ray recorded a special mix for Dazed Digital before last weeks shows in London, Glasgow and Paris, listen to it below and read the full interview on the Dazed Digital website here.
Tracklist:
1. Khulumani – Nkata Mawewe
2. The Tale – Meredith Monk
3. Guiyome – Konono No. 1
4. Jungle Riot – Ove-Naxx
5. Ngunyuta Dance – BBC
6. Natsu Ga Kita – Afrirampo
7. Do You Be? – Meredith Monk
8. Believer – M.I.A.
9. Kuar – Olof Dreijer remix – Emmanuel Jal
10. Dread – Nate Young
Its been medieval times for a while now. Nasdaq have been suffering. The banks and the investors. Fever Ray have been suffering as well. Things have been shit. But Fever Ray rises on 9. Like Wall Street Zombies they are now back to juice out the last drips of humanity. Led by the taskmaster Karin, the warlords of monetary jungle are ready to give you a last piece of monotonic bourgeois joy before you and the world around you implode.
A new, Andreas Nilsson designed, Fever Ray shirt is also available in both Fever Ray and Rabid stores and as a bundle with the Mercy Street 7″ and download:
*Mercy Street / Dry And Dusty 7″ + Mp3: Fever Ray / Rabid
*Mercy Street / Dry And Dusty 7″ + Mp3 + Shirt: Fever Ray / Rabid
*New Fever Ray 2010 Tour shirt by Andreas Nilsson: Fever Ray / Rabid
Fever Ray have once again collaborated with Andreas Nilsson (director of the ‘If I Had A Heart’ and Stranger Than Kindness videos and 2009′s spectacular live show) for the forthcoming live dates in Paris, Glasgow and London. The first clues to emerge from this are below, more to follow soon…
6th Sep O2 ABC, Glasgow
Tickets: Ticketeb
8th Sep Brixton Academy, London
Tickets: Ticketweb
9th Sep L’Olympia, Paris
Tickets: l’Olympia Store / Fever Ray Store
