Rare Interview with Fever Ray

Karin Dreijer, AKA Fever Ray, is a singular figure in the trajectory of Scandinavian avant-garde pop. After first forays into '90s indie rock with her band Honey Is Cool, Dreijer created her own platform, Rabid Records, before heading back to the studio alongside her brother Olof as the Knife. Initially starting the electro-pop duo out of a frustration with toxic band dynamics and business politics, Karin and Olof did not perform live for the first seven years of the group's existence. It wasn't until they developed an elaborate visual language, that allowed them to become actors in their own stage performance, that they started touring the project. The Knife became a global phenomenon that bridged the gap between art, spectacle and massive indie-pop hits like "Heartbeats" and "Pass This On." Fever Ray, Karin's solo project, came to life in 2009. More elegiac and with a darker aesthetic, the eponymous debut album dealt with Dreijer's take on motherhood and its implications.

Fever Ray makes music the way David Cronenberg makes movies: visceral, writhing, slippery. What seems human turns out to be technology; what seems like a machine turns out to be flesh. Everything is oversaturated. Your ears have fallen into a parallel world that only kind of resembles our own.

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