Fever Ray - 'What They Call Us' (Official Video) just dropped! first new Fever Ray song in 5 years

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Karin Elisabeth Dreijer is a Swedish singer-songwriter and record producer. Dreijer was one half of the electronic music duo The Knife, formed with their brother Olof Dreijer. Dreijer released their debut solo album under the alias Fever Ray in January 2009. Their second studio album, Plunge, under the same alias, was released in October 2017.

Dreijer's vocal style is notable for both shrill and deep tones, and also the use of multitracked vocals, with different uses of pitch-shifting technology on each track, creating an intricate and mysterious effect. Visually, they employ the use of masks, face and body paint, intricate costumes, and other theatrical elements in photo shoots, videos and live performances, during which they often perform behind a gauze screen that partially obscures the audience's view.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/fever-ray-what-they-call-us/



The video for “What They Call Us,” Karin Dreijer’s first new song in five years as Fever Ray, opens on Dreijer as a sallow office drone, greenish circles beneath vacant eyes, half-eaten watermelon lying masticated on their desk. Then, they travel via desk chair to darker, torchlit realms, office suddenly yielding to forest. By video’s end, Dreijer is lying in a pile of Xeroxes of their own face and inciting their coworkers into a Matrix Reloaded–style bacchanal. Like every Dreijer visual, it hypnotizes without quite explaining itself, but the overarching theme seems to be yearning from within spiritual imprisonment.

In the past, Dreijer has relished transforming themselves into a mournful bridge troll, a growling demon, an avenging angel. But on “What They Call Us” they sound like no one but themselves, singing the slow, stepwise melody in their tremulous lower range. “First I’d like to say that I’m sorry,” they sing, husky-voiced, eyes burning out of the camera. “The person who came here was broken/Can you fix it, can you care?” Co-produced with their brother, the Knife’s Olof Dreijer, the song seems to be holding its breath for the answer: The bass drum reverberates into high-ceilinged space, while a flanging keyboard provides the neuron crackles of a nervous system seething with need and hurt.

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1. Listened to Fever Ray debut SO MANY TIMES ... such a great album

Checking out this new one now!

Edit: I also love her two Röyksopp collab songs on Junior. Also an album I love I might add. Karin, Lykke Li, Robyn guesting ... so good.

Edit 2: Okay, that's badass!!! Has a similar 'early/experimental Peter Gabriel' vibe I caught on a number of songs on Fever Ray. And I love early Peter Gabriel solo stuff.