It took me awhile to appreciate Silent Shout but I absolutely love it now. I always felt it was special, but it was so haunting at first, I just felt really uncomfortable listening to it.
Now, that discomfort is almost a pleasure experience, like an episode from the latest (last) season of Twin Peaks.
Oh man, you’re in for a treat! I would maybe start with the debut or Radical Romantics. Plunge is a bit more abrasive and less inviting, but of course you might be into that.
I really love „A Tooth for an Eye“ and like „Full of Fire“ and „Without You My Life Would Be Boring“. Never really warmed to the rest of Habitual, though I like it as a bold statement.
wow I was not aware of this. was already planning a trip to visit family in Stockholm this summer (from the US). basing it around this concert now so thanks for the heads up!
I can’t remember if it was the Jose Gonzalez cover of “Heartbeats” or Silent Shout that first put me on to them. Either way, before that, I’d given up hope we’d see anything continue the Homoegenic/KID A promise of melded, progressive art-pop/rock-electronica. Silent Shout put my mind firmly at ease. And they just have not let up. Shout - Fever Ray - Habitual is such a glorious run. And everything Karin has done as Fever Ray has done has been exemplary. Olof is one helluva producer, but Karin is a force of nature.
I saw The Knife for their last Berlin show and Fever Ray on the Purge tour in Warsaw. I loved the former’s Performance Art, group, communal grandiosity. The latter was a smoking hot electronic band nailing the hits (the keyboard player was absolute fire); the place was a party; it was amazing.
In addition to the music, though, is their immaculate politics: the “Pass It On” video, the “P3 Award” appearance, a whole godamn opera on Darwin, the inserts to Shaking, all the radical queerness of recent Fever Ray and all the details I’m leaving out spread across however many things they’ve done (Edit: “This Country” should be a protest anthem). Living and creating their truth. Absolute stars.
Glad I could help! I feel like there is not that many topics on artists here in General. While I think it’s nice that the focus on Elektronauts is users’ music and gear/methods to make it, we could probably have a bit more topics about artists that have influenced many of us or the newest hot things.