Fever Ray - iTunes to Electronic album of the year!
December 8th, 2009iTunes USA have named Fever Ray as their favorite electronic album of 2009 in their Rewind 2009 feature.
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.”
Fever Ray makes The Sunday Times top 100 albums of 2009 at number 3 in the new artists section:
“The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson responded to motherhood with an album of glacial sonic architecture, its unforgiving expanses conjuring up sleep-deprived mental churning. An electro classic.”
See the full list here.
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.”
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
“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.
Live in Luleå will be released digitally in Europe on November 30th, click here for more details and full tracklisting.
In the USA Live in Luleå will be available as part of the Fever Ray Deluxe Edition tomorrow (24th November) - Note: the individual tracks will be available to buy separately from the full album release.