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://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12845-fever-ray/
“The album moves at roughly the same pace and with the same general tone, rendering some of the songs indistinguishable at first, but committed listens will reveal this to be as nuanced and as rich of a production as anything either Dreijer has done.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/27/fever-ray
“As unlikely a step as Fever Ray may seem for one of electronic music’s most enigmatic figures, the results are triumphant”
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Fever-Ray
“Yet listening to Fever Ray washed all of my anxieties away and instilled back into me the joys of music listenership, basically making this album a fucking godsend. Pick it up! Or don’t!”
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.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/149198-video-fever-ray-when-i-grow-up
“An evocative and sufficiently creep video for “When I Grow Up” that finds a woman in pretty rough shape contemplating eternity from the end of a diving board. Following on the clip for “If I Had a Heart“, that’s two winners in a row for Fever Ray.”
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.’
