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According to this, Sweden’s The Knife will post new material to Soundcloud "in the coming days," so keep an eye out for that. The new material may or may not be from their new collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, the "Darwin-inspired electro-opera" Tomorrow, In a Year (preview that here). ****** elsewhere: Another ‘heavy pop’ demo from...
The second single off of Fever Ray’s endlessly relistenable self titled album finds itself a new home in video form. "When I Grow Up" may not have all the mystery as it’s older video sibling, but it’s still pretty fucking weird. Some young freak folk conjures the water spirits with a creepy dance and, obviously, there’s some gross perv who’s hypnotized by...
We reviewed their debut album back in August, and now they’ve given us their picks. Since they couldn’t agree collectively, we have some from each band member. Exciting. Allan – Guitar Mew Why? New album “No More Stories / Are Told Today / I’m Sorry / They Washed Away // No More Stories / The World Is Grey / I’m Tired / Let’s Wash Away.” 70...
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Presumably the result of spending too much time hanging out in lightless Arctic caves, The Knife’s new project finds them translating Charles Darwin’s "The Origin Of Species" into an electro-pop opera that mimics the learning of birdsong. Quite the undertaking, I’m sure you’ll agree, but with the help of Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, Karin Dreijer Andersson and...
L.A.’s Dum Dum Girls just posted a couple of new videos, both comprised of appropriately winsome vintage found footage, on her youtube channel. The first — for “Catholicked,” which is the song that made us fall in love with DDG in the first place — features some fitting home movies of a young girl getting, well, catholicked. The second clip is for an instantly...
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart OMG I LOVE THE KNIFE. Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson. Karin Dreijer Andersson is one half of The Knife. So by using the transitive property, I love Fever Ray. "If I Had A Heart" is undeniably made by Karin and definitely has a Knife feeling to it. But it’s more aligned with the darker side of Silent Shout. The slow burning "...
This booming raindance exclusive (which premiered earlier this week via our new RCRD of The Day) comes courtesy of J-Wow of Buraka Som Sistema and transforms Fever Ray’s original occult appeal into a ghetto-tech electro ballad fit for for the stickiest of floors. Fever Ray, a.k.a. Karin Dreijer-Andersson of The Knife, just released her eponymous and worthy debut, marrying glossy...
I leave you for the weekend with this outstanding version of Fever Ray’s "When I Grow Up," reworked by Lissvik of Swedish balearic duo Studio. I mentioned it briefly last week, but now we’ve got the mp3 clear to post for your weekend. Probably my favorite remix of the year so far; the children’s playground samples and panpipes lend a nice eerie, slightly unsettling...
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  • Bully For You

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