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.”

http://www.thevine.com.au/music/articles/interview-_-fever-ray.aspx

“What do you do as an artist when you have the world at your feet? The logical answer is to bang out another record and make hay whilst the sun shines. But Karin Dreijer Andersson, who along with sibling Olof Dreijer makes up much lauded Swedish duo The Knife, had other ideas. She decided to lock her self away and rebuild her home studio in the middle of deepest darkest winter. This is the story of Fever Ray…”

Fever Ray talks about almost everything (in swedish) in Fulradio!

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136211

http://www.gigwise.com/features/48947/Behind%20The%20Mask:%20Fever%20Ray

Karin Dreijer’s vocals are anything but apologetic.  They are razor sharp, emanating from an underworld, burning through slick electronica as crystal salt on frozen ground