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La medicina de esta noche es el lanzamiento del día: Fever Ray - 'Even It Out' (2023)

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Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Fever Ray Found Humor in Darkness for Their Creepy Love Album ‘Radical Romantics’ https://jezebel.com/fever-ray-radical-romantics-interview-1850205450 #Jezebel #entertainment2cculture #radicalromantics #charlesdarwin #karolinapajak #entertainers #karindreijer #atticusross #olofdreijer #trentreznor #musicians #theknife #albums #sonic #oasis #lydia #rabid #over #ohio #ray #i

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This album cycles through different emotional extremes: anger and fear, giddiness and deep sadness. How do those edges cohere around the theme of figuring out how love can be realized?

I don’t know if we should call it “sad.” Maybe there are calm moments, but it’s also about this radical acceptance of what you need to feel safe and loved. It brings you a stillness, but it also brings you a sadness. A lot of things don’t work out. You have to start saying no to things. You have to find people who also know about themselves and are able to express their needs. It requires time and stillness to be able to find these things out. We don’t live in a time with much stillness. We live under capitalism. And that is very difficult to combine with love, because it is sort of the opposite. Everything changes so fast, but it takes a lot of courage and time and bravery to find out about your own needs, and then to dare to accept and express them.

When you are brought up in a way where you learn things about connection and attachment that are not so good for you, you have to spend a lot of time relearning how to do things in a healthy way. You have to be active in that relearning. I do think love is a verb, an action. To work on your relationships with friends, or romantic relationships, or relationships toward your children if you have any, requires engagement and commitment. That is difficult to do if you’re working all the time, and a lot of people do have to work a lot just to be able to live. But a lot of people don’t dare to find out what it is to really love and take care of each other, too.

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https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/fever-ray-radical-romantics/

Pitchfork: How did you start to dig into the thematic core of Radical Romantics?

Karin Dreijer: I felt very much that these were love songs. But then Martin [Falck], who I work with on the videos and visuals, said, “There is not really an actual love song on the album.” Maybe then it’s more about finding out what it is to love.

I have been reading so much. bell hooks’ All About Love was written over 20 years ago, but a lot of what she wrote is still so radical. She was worried there’s a whole generation that will be too scared to love, that people today are not open to being in that vulnerable state. To be able to be in a romantic relationship, you have to know a lot about yourself. You have to know about your own needs and what you need to feel loved and safe within a relationship. You have to have a radical acceptance of yourself to be able to be in love.

It’s a more calm and peaceful album than the last one, in that sense—a bit like sitting down and having landed: OK, this is what I need. That can also be super scary, because then you need to have boundaries to protect that space. You will probably have to say no to a lot of things that look very fun, but maybe they’re not so good for you.

In the “Kandy” video, we have a new character called Romance, who portrays all the bad stuff that you really want to throw yourself into. You want them to destroy you and swallow you. On the other hand, you also know that they are not the best choice for you. They’re your old, toxic pattern that you have promised your therapist to break—very hard to resist.

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Fever Ray’s Voices of Desire | Pitchfork https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/fever-ray-radical-romantics/

At what point did you decide to bring in Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross?

I was very into the Watchmen TV series. I had watched it three times and really liked their music in it. I was thinking it would be fun if they wanted to be involved. I asked them to collaborate on “Even It Out,” which stands out from the rest because it has a very clear story. It is about revenge on your kid’s bully. I’m almost 50 years old now, and they are also very old, and I know Trent has a lot of kids. So I thought it would be a fun thing to collaborate on, this story of parental revenge.

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Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer on romance, ageing and kink: ‘There is always the dangerous route’ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/feb/17/fever-ray-karin-dreijer-romance-ageing-kink-dangerous-route

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Losing My Edge host - Chris Herstad Carney & Michael Stevenson of Statement Haircut team up for an Artist Focus on Swedish musician Karin Dreijer. From seminal electronic duo The Knife with brother Olaf to their celebrated solo project Fever Ray - ahead of their hotly anticipated third album Radical Romantics - Chris and Michael explore the best & some of the most challenging work of this enigmatic industry figure.
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