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, “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)
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.
