New Fever Ray (The Knife's Karin Dreijer) Video - "If I Had a Heart"
Regular Knife visual collaborator Andreas Nilsson offers an eerie video for "If I Had A Heart," the dark, pulsing, ambient first single from Karin Dreijer's new project, Fever Ray. It's pretty great -- a couple of kids carry a torch and take a boat down the River Styx toward a spooky mansion housing a victim of foul play in a red dress and Dreijer in her skeletal face paint -- but nothing will ever top the quietly anthemic "Pass This On" clip. Then again, this track is more Svarte Greiner than "Heartbeats," so the bleakness is more than apropos.
(Via P4K.tv)
"If I Had A Heart" is out as a single via Beatport and Klicktrack. The debut album's out 3/24 via Mute.
Posted at 12:23 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Fever Ray | Karin Dreijer | The Knife
The funny thing is, I just listened through all of Silent Shout last night (I am very obsessed with Forest Families at the moment) and woke up to find this.
Excellent. This video is mesmerizing.
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awesome. music misses you karin.
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boooooring
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dias de los muerte en Sweden
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Beautiful. Real. Thank you.
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What a good video. I can't wait for this album. I missed Karin.
VIDEO OF 2009!!!
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it feels refreshing knowing that on the 6th day of the year we should be able to wrap up two categories for the gummy awards. best video right here and best album to merriweather post pavilion.
(im only being somewhat sarcastic. i really do like both of those)
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Friggin amazing! The style and aesthetic reminds me of Royksopp's video for 'What Else Is There.' With Karin and Royksopp's new albums coming out on the same day... the end of March is gonna be awesome!
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This shit was crazy-amazing. I'm gonna spread it like wildfire.
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at the beginning i said what a shit song, and then i watched it 895 times!it's beeing a long time since the last time i watched and listened such a masterpiece! thanks
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wowowow
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I think that video would have made just about any song seem awesome. Out of the context of the footage the song doesn't have much going for it. The video itself is amazing though. Had I just heard the song, I would have dismissed Fever Ray, but this has made me interested. Which means the video has worked!
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The little girl in the boat looks like it could be Karin's daughter.
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