'IF I HAD A HEART': THE FIRST SINGLE FROM FEVER RAY
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OUT DECEMBER 15TH
What would you do if one decade into your career you suddenly saw one of your songs turned into a worldwide hit, won six Grammys 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.
In Karin’s own words, “I had so many songs to record that I just had to make an album. I thought I was going to have a longer break but I guess it will never happen. I can't stop working. My aim was to finish the album and now that it's done I'm a bit restless (good that The Knife has an opera to write then.) During the last years I discovered that I like to sing too, so I hope that my newly found live band will make it to the stages next year. We are rehearsing and building something beautiful and brilliant."
‘If I Had A Heart’ is the first single from Fever Ray: a stirring mantra, a boundless loop, a deep sleep spreading over fields and endless oceans. A dark evocation of hope and a demand for “more, give me more”.
Music and lyrics by Fever Ray, and the track was produced by Fever Ray & Christoffer Berg. The video for ‘If I Had A Heart’ was directed by Andreas Nilsson.
The debut album is released on March 18th 2009 by Rabid Records in Sweden/Scandinavia, March 23rd on Cooperative Music in the UK and the rest of Europe, March 24th through Mute in the US and March 23rd through Etc Etc in Australia & New Zealand. Watch this space for more information.
Link to the Fever Ray website here
Link to the Rabid Records website here
