http://www.wouldbehipster.com/2009/10/fever-ray-henry-fonda.html

“Interestingly enough, despite standing in the second row, I still have no idea what Karin DreijerAndersson looks like. Fever Ray may ultimately be the expression of a solo artist, but it’s become so much more — a fact driven home by elaborate stage design by Andreas Nilsson. Fringe-adorned lamps blinked ominously to the beat-heavy music. Clumps of incense burned at the front of the stage — their sick sweetness washing over the audience. Man-made pathetic fallacy at its finest, fog freely billowed. By the end of the set the entire room would be nearly obscured.”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/10/live-review-fever-ray-at-the-fonda.html

“[Fever Ray works] at the absolute forefront of sound, stage and the ways the two inform each other…Fever Ray never shies from its more theatrical and modern impulses, the real emotions Andersson’s music brings out — enticement, disquiet and unknowable mystery — are much older than the stage”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/10/fever-ray-webster-hall.html#entry-more

“I just went to the Metropolitan Art Museum, and was in the Papua New Guinea section, I saw masks and things that are in the video for ‘If I Had A Heart,’ things that Andreas Nilsson put in there without telling me. I also saw the African mask exhibition, which was incredible. I get very moved by folk movements, events where you dress up for a party but in a way that allows everybody to do it. They use easily accessible materials for their outfits. It’s not like the culture for an opera class—it’s for everybody. Right now, there is a big lack of rituals in everyday life.”

Read here: http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6663

“Karin Anderssen’s compositions, less clubby than her work in The Knife but more melodically developed, would seem ready made for reworks, full of spare, moody electronics and tantalizing texture. Oh, and that voice, that instantly recognizable voice, serpentine, witchlike, giving a spooky edge even to lyrics as innocuous as “I have a friend I’ve known since I was seven…we used to talk on the phone…we talk about love, about dishwasher tablets.”

Read here: http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4138045-this-weeks-singles–05-10-2009

“There is only one woman on the planet who can sing a line about the modern and miraculous cleaning products we humans use to wash the crud off our dishes, and still make it sound impossibly sinister. Karin Dreijer is that woman.”

http://chicagoist.com/2009/10/05/lasers_smoke_and_witchcraft_with_fe.php

“Somber electronic droning greeted our ears as we entered the low light of the Metro Saturday night for the sold out Chicago appearance of Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife’s newest project, Fever Ray. Andersson channeled the occult, burying the audience beneath a dense fog of smoke penetrable only by the geometric beams of light slicing through the air. Mystery, intrigue and awe were the themes of the evening as we joined the rest of the audience with mouths agape, soaking in sensory overload.”

http://www.pastemagazine.com/high_gravity/2009/10/pop-montreal-report-the-mystery-of-fever-ray.html

“Song after song sounded like the climax scene of a vampire film. A couple of the bandmembers were dressed in priestly attire, adding to the gothic atmosphere. But there’s nothing wallowing about the music. It’s subtly uplifting with Dreijer enigatically singing about friendship, love and desire. The lasers danced joyfully, and the band, while concealed, was ebullient. Bright repeatitve melodies tumbled impatiently into each other.”

http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2009/10/02/fever-ray-raise-temperature-attract-arcade-fire-at-pop-montreal/

“Not willing to miss this possibly one and only chance, Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, Melissa Auf Der Maur and Priestess frontman Mikey Heppner were among the Montreal rock royalty spotted at Metropolis last night for the haunting, trippy solo project of Swedish electronic artist Karin Dreijer Andersson.”

http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/09/30/fever-ray-concert-live-review/

“What does a Fever Ray concert look like? Well, imagine stumbling upon a pagan sacrificial ritual in a misty forest under the blanket of night… if a laser-tag game was raging the heavens. Oh, and don’t forget a touch of Grandma’s house, maybe some antique lamps scattered around the stage. It might look something like that.”

http://www.thecultureofme.com/culture/2009/09/photos-fever-ray-at-webster-hall-on-september-28.html

“In what will more than likely be set in stone as the single most memorable concert we’ll experience in 2009, the mysterious project from Karin Dreijer-Andersson, Fever Ray, played their first NYC show on Monday night to a sold-out-like-whoa crowd at Webster Hall”