Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (Rabid)
4/5
By: Scott Dixon
BUY DOWNLOADSwedish experimentalists The Knife vaulted onto groaning indie dance floors long before the relentless flood of electro crossover refuse we've waded through waste deep in recent years. And the disassociation with mainstream media and reluctance to court open handed the commercial appeal their computerised pop could readily stock pile, is still as charming in Karin Dreijer Andersson's solo retreat as it was then.
But the landscape has shifted, and so we'd expect the latest single 'When I Grow Up' from the female half of the 'Heartbeats' marvels Fever Ray, to rumba with elbows aloft just be heard on their previous stage.
It's the cloaked simplicity of this track though, (released on Dreijer's very own Rabid Records) that offers an alternative to its chart climbing contemporaries. Treading a lyrical high wire between effortless imagery and nonsensical preening, the strangling tension of previous release 'If I Had A Heart' remains set alongside the watery drip of its forum crashing video.
Dan Lissvik's remixed B-side severs the beautiful and minimal drama built in the original, with a surprisingly alluring aboriginal echo to a faster tempo, unfortunately ensuring it endless repeats on the soulless playlist of the MacBook dj.
Bled out over time the single's shadowy pulse with Dreijer's divisive delivery proves as unavoidably infectious as catching coughed up Tuberculosis on a crowded Hackney night bus. The difference being the disease is curable, where as 'When I Grow Up' should prove a little more untreatable on the ears of both Fever Ray fans and critics.
Artists in this article: Fever Ray
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