http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/viewareview.aspx?reviewID=765
“The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson’s solo project was always going to be something of note – how could that alien-like, trembling voice not produce excellent results? – but the direction it was to take was the source of mystery. Going to the darkest parts of The Knife’s musical palette was a sensible option indeed.”
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/71581-fever-ray-fever-ray/
“Nothing that Fever Ray does is as immediate or soaring as a track like “Marble House” but Fever Ray makes up for the lack of highs by being an even more all-enveloping experience than the last few Knife records.”
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6040
“More than three years have passed since the release of The Knife’s masterful goth-trance classic, Silent Shout, and Karin Dreijer Andersson’s brother and Knife-partner Olof Dreijer is supposedly hard at work on an opera about Darwin and both have no current plans to record again under the name. But whether the Knife as studio recording artists are indeed finished, Karin’s own debut as Fever Ray sounds like a natural successor to Silent Shout‘s eerie, bleak-night atmospheres given a few years to mature in solitude and wintry, wind-howl places”
http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/fever-ray/fever-ray/24506/
“It’s easy to see that the Anderssons don’t view themselves as mere pop performers and even with its chinks, Fever Ray magnifies that discussion. It seems apt then to distort the oft-used ”suburbia-as-Hell” motif to “performer-in-Hell.”
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1683
“Each of these stylistic decisions work equally well, and what impresses most about Fever Ray is that none of the choices are obvious.”
http://www.spin.com/reviews/fever-ray-fever-ray-mute
“Her solo debut slightly tones down the Knife’s electro innovation but turns up the creepy affect, making lyrically tender tracks like ‘Concrete Walls’ and hallucinatory sketches like ‘When I Grow Up’ into reverse Rorschachs.”
http://www.musicomh.com/albums/fever-ray_0209.htm
‘Dark-edged electronic pop is the answer in short. While this won’t come as any surprise to current The Knife devotees, Fever Ray is a more personal, edgier and at times stark listen. Lyrically there is enough detail to snag interest but definitive meanings are always left blurry, vague and ambiguous enough to keep you guessing.’
