Fever Ray

Spin (pp.78-79) - "[The album] 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..." Alternative Press (p.114) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "It's the perfect soundtrack to a midnight walk through a Swedish winter: cold, crisp and gorgeous, with shadows and light intertwined." Blender (Magazine) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A]lmost every song incorporates shrewd production details, like the clog-dance percussion that kicks 'I'm Not Done' forward." Pitchfork (Website) - "In addition to many of the same plasticky percussions and goofy synth sounds that the Knife made their stock in trade, FEVER RAY also brims with fragile, more articulated sounds." Clash (Magazine) (p.110) - "'If I Had A Heart' is a great opener -- a hypnotic and dark slab of melancholic ambience with much of the album following suit. Cinematic in its scope, the quality never drops..."

スウェーデンでもっともクールなバンドと評されるナイフのヴォーカリスト、カリン・ドレイエ・アンダーソンがソロ・プロジェクトを始動。ゴスな匂いも漂わせるドローンなシンセ・サウンドがダウンテンポで展開され、リスナーをどんどん深みへと誘ってくれるかのよう。世界観的にはビョークのそれとも似てますね。同郷の奇才、ヒルドことクリストファー・ベルグがプロデュースに関わったのも好結果に繋がっています。　
bounce (C)池田 謙司