Showing posts with label fever ray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fever ray. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Friday, 18 December 2009
Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Top 5 Albums of the Year: Hummer
 5. The Horrors – Primary ColoursOn Primary Colours The Horrors recruited Portishead’s Geoff Burrow and ditched their goth punk in favour of rich moody textured rock. The result is one of the year’s best albums, which helped the band prove themselves to be more than the tidal wave of skinny jeans, haircuts and hype that overshadowed their 2007 debut. |
 4. Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse – Dark Night Of The SoulWith its high art concept, Hollywood-style promotion, massive list of contributors, legal battles, 50 pages of glossy art work and David Lynch weirdness, Dark Night Of The Soul was going to be brilliant or a kick in the balls. Brilliant it is - the kick in the balls came when it was revealed that the album will never be released. |
 3. Fever Ray – Fever RayDroning, monotonous and claustrophobic: not words you would normally associate with great pop albums, but then again Fever Ray’s debut is not a normal pop album, just a great one. |
 2. The Xx – XxThe self-produced debut album from London upstarts The Xx is gloriously downbeat: delicate guitars weave between trip hop-esque beats while the spoken boy/girl vocals give the feeling that you are eavesdropping on a private conversation. |
 1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus PhoenixWolfgang Amadeus Phoenix finds the band doing what they do better than anyone else – danceable indie-pop with touches of shoegaze, dabs of ambient electro, a splatter of euphoric highs and lashings of Gallic cool. |
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Two great free live releases this weekend
Spooky Fever Ray download
Back in March, one half of The Knife Karin Dreijer Andersson released a solo album under the name Fever Ray.
The self-titled album is one of the year’s best, full of claustrophobic electronic-pop songs that blend into each other so well that it almost finishes before it begins, leaving you reaching for the repeat button.
Fever Ray have performed the album’s tracks at some 50 shows, all of them reported to be among the most disturbing of recent years. Venues were completely filled with dry ice, through which you could vaguely make out eerie figures on the stage: a deeply sinister clown, someone dressed as a kind of insect.
This weekend, a recording of one of these shows has been made available to readers of The Guardian.
Guardian “readers” can download the album from http://guardian.co.uk/feverray
Crowd sourcing a Nine Inch Nails show
On August 23rd, Nine Inch Nails performed their self-hate masterpiece The Downward Spiral live in its entirety for the first time ever.
While the band were unwilling to pay the venue’s exorbitant fees to have the performance professionally recorded, they were able to negotiate an open camera policy, meaning fans could film the show themselves using anything from a mobile phone to hi-def video camera.
Almost as soon as the show ended, fans started using the nin.com forums and quasi official NIN fan sites NIN Hotline and thisoneisonus.org to hunt out and compile footage from all who attended. Now only two months later, a polished multi-cam edited downloadable DVD of the full Webster Hall performance has appeared.
Forget crowd surfing - crowd sourcing is the new thing to do at rock concerts.
You can download the DVD from http://theninhotline.net/features/TDSlive/ or stream the YouTube channel here.
Back in March, one half of The Knife Karin Dreijer Andersson released a solo album under the name Fever Ray.The self-titled album is one of the year’s best, full of claustrophobic electronic-pop songs that blend into each other so well that it almost finishes before it begins, leaving you reaching for the repeat button.
Fever Ray have performed the album’s tracks at some 50 shows, all of them reported to be among the most disturbing of recent years. Venues were completely filled with dry ice, through which you could vaguely make out eerie figures on the stage: a deeply sinister clown, someone dressed as a kind of insect.
This weekend, a recording of one of these shows has been made available to readers of The Guardian.
Guardian “readers” can download the album from http://guardian.co.uk/feverray
Crowd sourcing a Nine Inch Nails show
On August 23rd, Nine Inch Nails performed their self-hate masterpiece The Downward Spiral live in its entirety for the first time ever.While the band were unwilling to pay the venue’s exorbitant fees to have the performance professionally recorded, they were able to negotiate an open camera policy, meaning fans could film the show themselves using anything from a mobile phone to hi-def video camera.
Almost as soon as the show ended, fans started using the nin.com forums and quasi official NIN fan sites NIN Hotline and thisoneisonus.org to hunt out and compile footage from all who attended. Now only two months later, a polished multi-cam edited downloadable DVD of the full Webster Hall performance has appeared.
Forget crowd surfing - crowd sourcing is the new thing to do at rock concerts.
You can download the DVD from http://theninhotline.net/features/TDSlive/ or stream the YouTube channel here.
Friday, 13 February 2009
If I Had a Heart of Chaos
This week’s Friday freebie is a double act from Australian indie alt-country group The Howling Bells and Swedish electronic songstress Fever Ray.Head to www.howlingbells.net for your free copy of Into The Chaos, the lead single from Radio Wars, The Howling Bells new album their first since 2006's critically acclaimed debut.
Depending on where you live Radio Wars is either out now or will be available from the first week of March.
If new stuff from The Howling Bells doesn’t float your boat perhaps you would be more interested in Fever Ray.
Fever Ray, better known as Karin Dreifer Andersson (one half of The Knife) has recorded an album of atmospheric electro pop songs. Triple j are offering an exclusive remix of Fever Ray’s first single If I Had a Heart. You can download it here.
Fever Ray's self titled debut album is available for download now and physically from March 18th.
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