Recorded a few months after delivery of her second child - it seems that the maid did this troubling period the motor suitable for the construction of its inverted universe - Fever Ray is a wonderful dip in the dark. At least if one accepts the code. Thus, if the album starts with a heavy ceremony and anxiety changed, it will be step by step it will move forward in this nightmare written in cold letters, even to be surprised by the howl of a wolf When I Grow Up or the cry of an eagle on Coconut. Childhood fears revisited sequences where hovering the ghost of Joy Division, actually it's all about grip in this journey of initiation. Actually sway, because these are the songs that decide now. Its survival. Haunting, it is this voice that dictates singular plural words to the darkness (Concrete Walls). Cold, metronomic, also note that the music has its own vocabulary. Voodoo trip hop, Asian dark, if the formulas are worth not much face such a creative whirlwind, that remains a mix of genres does more than appeal: it captivates.
Complex character, Karin decided to yield nothing to the fashions of the moment. Also, dominated from start to finish by a pop-sac torn by some dance inclinations, Fever Ray will look for in us what is always an enigma. Namely, our second nature. You know, the one that never dares appear in the morning light, and who lives in the depths of our being. Clin d'aeil Charles Burns, even the jacket art does not resemble reality. And if all this was only the beginning. A prototype. We would see what we would see? ...