fever ray + johan renck: seven.

I’m developing a massive obsession with Fever Ray. She is so unabashedly weird you can’t help but fall in love with her. And each video she steps it up in the obscure and bizarre department: check out her previous vids “When I Grow Up” and “Triangle Walks.” She is so thoroughly esoteric that it makes me feel like I’m the only one who understands her, and that it turn makes me feel special. Like we’re communicating in some sort of fucked up video-code across the countries and oceans. I really, really,… really would like to get a drink with her.

In her latest video for “Seven”, acclaimed video director Johan Renck (professional partner and contemporary of Jonas Åkerlund) created this completely unsettling nightmare-scape of an old woman telling her life story from inside a barn filled with skittish livestock and, obviously, a duo of beard-faced men. What does it all mean? As I’ve said before, usually in reference to Björk or Tori Amos, I have no idea what it means to her. But I know it means something very special to her, and therefore I can extrapolate from that and then interpolate for myself what it means to me. And that amazing exchange, a free flow of interpretation from artist to viewer, is, to me, the highest form of art.

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fever ray + martin de thurah: when i grow up.

I like to see boundaries pushed. I like the convergence of music with high visual art. And I like artists who are brave enough to do what they want and not give a fuck what people will say. People are so quick to dismiss things that are too complex for them to understand.

Fever Ray is the solo project of acclaimed Swedish electro artist Karin Dreijer Andersson. Of course, she’s Scandinavian, because Scandinavians are cooler than everyone else on the planet. In her new video for “When I Grow Up”, directed by Martin de Thurah, she’s feral, she’s covered in string, and she’s singing on a diving board. You don’t need to know why, you just need to believe and let yourself feel it. Aesthetically, sonically, visually; it’s unbelievably awesome. I would do anything for this woman.

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