Fever Ray — Fever Ray

Fever Ray is the debut solo album from Karin Dreijer Andersson, one-half of Swedish electro-pop duo The Knife. Andersson wrote the album's 10 tracks over an eight-month period, at first working eight hours a day alone in her Stockholm apartment, then later bringing in Christoffer Berg and Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid for assistance with production and mixing.

As The Knife's readily identifiable voice, it's difficult to separate Fever Ray from Andersson's day job. But the aura of isolation from which these songs were sprung is all over the album as if it was the soundtrack for getting lost in the wilderness. Like fellow electro artists Burial and Salem, Fever Ray taps into the dark and brooding vibes of Tricky's Maxinquaye for inspiration, but not imitation. Fever Ray is prickly and cold to Tricky's karmacoma haze.

Midpoint tracks "Seven" and "Triangle Walks" give listeners a chance to come up for air and are probably the most Silent Shout-esque tracks. But the reprieve is short-lived and Andersson quickly throws us back into the deep, murky depths.

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