1. The Hunt
2. Out of Our Minds
3. Isis Speaks
4. Lead Horse
5. Follow the Map
6. 22 Below
7. Meet Me on the Dark Side
8. This Would Be Paradise
9. Father's Grave
10. The Key
11. The One
12. 1000 Years
Out of Our Minds is the second solo album from Melissa Aud Der Maur, released six years after her self-titled debut, the album was also accompanied by a feature film and comic of the same name. According to reports, the album has been completed since 2007.
A highly skilled bass player, we already noticed her as a songwriter among the girls in Hole the great redhead appears, through her intimate work, as a very complex person, assuming the schizophrenic part inherent to any independent artist: feet in the ground and mind high in ethereal world of dreams.
Melissa assumes her musical roots on this album and speaks to the Elements over “Follow the Maps” to tame them, to calm their epic tension and to guide the listener beyond the waves of guitars which break out by fits and starts, rough sometimes, tourmented often, moving always to their most quiet passages. Quiet times that announce the storm (“22 below”).
Climates move so, along kind of a Sabbath the Queen of which would wear hair of fire and sing ancient chants (“1 000 years”, definitive and excellent). Forests are bleeding but resting reproved peoples gathered for a last dance around the father’s grave. The mass is told. This record shakes deep in as much as it appeals to soul. And we will be the ones who follow her to the end.
Out Of Our Minds
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Alternative/Electronic/Rock
1. "If I Had a Heart"
2. "When I Grow Up"
3. "Dry and Dusty"
4. "Seven"
5. "Triangle Walks"
6. "Concrete Walls"
7. "Now's the Only Time I Know"
8. "I'm Not Done"
9. "Keep the Streets Empty for Me"
10. "Coconut"
Fever Ray is the solo project of Karin Dreijer Andersson, who is one half of the Swedish electro act The Knife (the other half is her brother Olof Dreijer). Andersson was also the lead singer and guitarist for the defunct indie pop group Honey is Cool.
What would you do if one decade into your career you suddenly saw one of your songs turned into a worldwide hit, won six Grammis in your native Sweden and your latest release was declared album of the year by one of the world’s most influential music websites? If you’re Karin Dreijer Andersson, formerly singer with ‘90s pop hopes Honey is Cool and now one half of The Knife, the answer is to take a couple of years off and return as a solo artist under a new name: Fever Ray.
Fever Ray’s self-titled debut album was groundbreaking. The electro sounds and lyrics are similar to frontwoman Karin Dreijer Andersson’s former project The Knife, yet evoke an even eerier and emotionally intense feeling that is fast-paced and experimental in sound. Karin delivers a truly unique auditory experience that blends fantasy with the nightmarish and unknown. Seeing Fever Ray perform live at Webster Hall in New York City this year was definitely unlike any other live show I’ve seen to date. “When I Grow Up,” “Seven,” and “If I Had A Heart” are among the best tracks on the album, with videos that parallel in the strange and unique. The album penetrates your curiosity, half-terrifying, half-calming, and draws you into Karin’s world — highly emotional, complex and wonderfully weird.(ForTheBeat)
When I Grow Up
If I Had A Heart
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