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Fever Ray

Fever Ray

Fever Ray

Experimental ambient electronica from Karin Dreijer Andersson of Swedish duo The Knife

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
Rabid/V2
UK Release date
30/03/2009
  1. 10.0 |   The Guardian

    As unlikely a step as Fever Ray may seem for one of electronic music's most enigmatic figures, the results are triumphant.
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Once you get acclimatized to the environment, you don’t really want to live anywhere else.
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  3. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    The more time you spend with Fever Ray, the more you become convinced that these songs aren't written so much as they're temporarily let out.
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  4. 8.0 |   Clash

    There’s a distinct pulse to the record, which becomes more apparent as it progresses... And with further spins, greater depth is revealed.
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  5. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    You can’t dance to any of it, whatever the remixers may do, but you can certainly inhabit it.
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  6. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    This is an odd gem of a record that should be cherished in a class of its own.
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  7. 8.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    This is an astonishingly stark record, brooding like prime-period Brando.
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  8. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    An album that burrows itself into the brain before nestling down for the long haul. By taking electronics forward but without sacrificing accessibility,
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  9. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  10. 8.0 |   NME

    To fully appreciate this beautiful and understated gem, however, it’s important to relinquish all desires for another ‘Heartbeats’ and enter fully into the world of Fever Ray
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  11. 8.0 |   Q

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  12. 7.0 |   Blender

    The deliberate, grimly percolating pulse of these songs evokes the surly anguish of adolescence.
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  13. 6.0 |   Spin

    The possessed-pinball-machine beats, the vocals doctored to sound like a 300-pound interdimensional Mongol.
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  14. 6.0 |   Uncut

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