Fever Ray

Fever Ray is reserved for Karin Dreijer Andersson’s darker, gothic explorations, lacking any of the upbeat electro beats she constructs with her brother Olof under the moniker The Knife. Unless…

New Fever Ray? Sure why not. Fever Ray’s cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” will be released on a seven inch slab of wax next month on Mute. Karin Dreijer…

LISTEN: New Brandon Flowers – “Swallow It” As Brandon Flowers’ September 6 release date for his debut solo album Flamingo creeps closer, Killers fans the world over may be singing…

Just hours after their announcement, The Knife have indeed uploaded new material to their SoundCloud account. The new track, “Colouring of Pigeons” is 11 minutes of chanting and musical bombast.…

How wonderful the internet is. The music streaming, hosting, discovery channel Sound Cloud (you can “drop” your music at PMA’s Dropbox here), has announced — through Twitter of course —…

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Artwork by the talented and generous Adam Sarpalius. The final list is here. We have been working on this Absolute (sarcasm) Best Songs of 2009 list all year, updating it…

Happy Halloween! Here’s a quick little mix of tracks I was listening to last night.

Fever Ray’s current single “Seven” is a smooth, filmy track about daydreaming in your youth… about suicide. At least that’s what I got from it. But despite it’s dark undertones,…

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Quicky: [download id="328"] SALEM remixed Royksopp’s latest single, “Tricky Tricky” featuring Fever Ray (or Karin Dreijer Andersson) for their remix competition. nightmagnets claims SALEM’s remix was their favorite of the…

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Quicky: [download id="318"] Passion Pit member, Shuttle, remixes Phoenix’s “Love Like A Sunset” and I like it better than Animal Collective’s take on it. Here are a few more remixes…

Karin Andersson and the Subliminal Kid have teamed up to create their own rendition of Vashti Bunyan’s beautiful acoustic song “Here Before”.  Upon first listen the cover sounds like a…

Always a fan of Crookers’ remixes, Phra and Bot once again shows us how a painless remix can result in endless fun. This time the duo gave their attention to…

An experimentation into color, movement, absorption and the body. A joint project by Lucy McRae and Mandy Smith. It features one of my favorite songs of this year, Fever Ray’s…