Fever Ray Halloween RA Podcast
- story Peter Macia
If your only options for a Halloween costume at this point are Balloon Boy, some visual representation of Kanye interrupting something or Carles, please get off the internet (after you’re done reading a bunch of posts here). We have a few recommendations. First, as a friend recently said, “I’m sexy every day of the year—Halloween is my chance to be ugly,” so forget the Sexy [fill in the blank] and turn yourself into a walking Swine Flu booger or enormous pair of saggy boobs. Option two, Hobo You: basically just you but wearing all the stuff at the bottom of the closet. Carry a knapsack and look eager for work because hobos are not bums. Someone might even offer you a job! Number three, fat cat. And finally, follow Fever Ray’s lead, dress normally (if not a little more stylishly) but act so fucking creepy that it actually makes people not want to be alone with you. Some of you are already really good at this so maybe just paint a spider web on your face or something. To prep and inspire, go grab the newest Resident Advisor podcast, helmed by Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson and her touring bandmates.
Download: Fever Ray Halloween RA Podcast
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posted on Oct 26, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, experimental, Fever Ray, Halloween, mixes, Resident Advisor
Video: Fever Ray, “Stranger Than Kindness”
- story Peter Macia
New weird video by Fever Ray—no surprise—but it is worth noting that Vanity Fair, who premiered it, finishes their accompanying blog post with “You. Hear It. First, muthafuggaz!!” which has to be some kind of milestone. The song itself is a Nick Cave-Anita Lane cover and will appear on a deluxe reissue of Fever Ray, but might as well be a Salem single with its skittering beat and syrupy pace. Can we get a collab from these dudes actually? (via GvsB)
Video: Fever Ray, “Seven”
Fever Ray continues her streak of slightly goth, contemporary art-inspired videos with “Seven,” possibly the least goth of any song on her transcendent debut. Here, an elderly woman dressed in a glittery tiara lip syncs in the middle of a sheep farm. No biggie! The plot seems to be about a fallen circus-show princess (purely basing that on her wolf-faced rhythm section) who’s trying to recapture her past, the sole audience a pack of cattle, her glory eternal even without any royal proscenium. Or it could be about some exiled witch razing something—but that’s the glory of the Fever Ray video, they’re esoteric and crafty enough to provoke thought, not just some dude in a band with guitar-string and crotch closeups. (via Gorilla vs. Bear)
Video: Fever Ray, “Triangle Walks”
- story THE FADER
This Fever Ray album has been producing some of the spookiest, most arcane best-best videos. For “Triangle Walks,” your girl is made up as a creepy ghoul, possibly a dead zombie, and we would not want to run into her in the street or (shudder) under our bed. The cool thing about these videos though is there’s some sort of melancholic humanity to all the representations of scary, like she is looking into the soul of demons and seeing the terrible, tragic nature of their existence. Being a poltergeist would probably suck, there’s no way you could ever get a tan, plus the whole “trapped between heaven and hell” thing, major drag. (Via Discobelle)
Audio: Fever Ray, “When I Grow Up (Dan Lissvik)”
- story THE FADER
Before Studio’s Dan Lissvik got hold of “When I Grow Up”: we loved it but its contemplative, measured, melancholy backdrop made us yearn to be in the rainy Pacific Northwest where the green light is so incandescent and fractured it’s almost neon. After Studio’s Dan Lissvik got hold of “When I Grow Up”: we love it, and we are cheered! What is going on with the Swedes being all joyous-sounding and seaside-like? Can you even surf in Sweden?
Video: Fever Ray, “When I Grow Up”
- story THE FADER
The second video from Fever Ray would be as spooky as the first if it didn’t totally remind us of this for some reason. Directed by Martin de Thurrah.
Video: Fever Ray, “If I Had a Heart”
- story THE FADER
Boomers and older may fear the heathen technology and the havoc demon concepts such as online newspapers, streaming audio and Twitter might wreak upon our crumbling society, but not us, no way. What terrifies us is the barren past, which included only rowboats, hinterlands, trees without leaves, dusty books, wolves, fogs, the sea and darkness, as seen in this video for the gripping dirge “If I Had a Heart.” Fever Ray, who you may remember as Karin Dreijer from the Knife, is fearless of these things, apparently, as she can be seen in her own video cradled in a murky twig-and-branch web painted up like a sad calaca from Dios de los Muertos. She might be equating the frozen nature of said absentee heart to the Day of the Dead, or she might not. Either way we are going to have nightmares about this amazing scary video while dreaming about the amazing pretty song.
