Fever Ray
Biography
Karin Dreijer (1975, Gothenburg), one half of The Knife (with brother Olof Dreijer), better known for its solo project Fever Ray, is a gender-fluid artist. From the synth beats of The Knife to the shapeshifting pop soundscapes of their solo work, Karin Dreijer – aka Fever Ray – has carved a singular, uncompromising path through twenty first century electronic music. Their debut album, eponymously titled, “Fever Ray” was released in 2009, a modern masterpiece of haunting, left-field electro pop that yielded the hits “If I Had A Heart” and “Keep the Streets Empty for Me”. Its follow-up took eight years: 2017’s transformative “Plunge” found Dreijer embracing their newfound queer identity through a set of irresistibly sensual, alien pop songs – including “To the Moon and Back”, “Wanna Sip” and the Björk collaboration “This Country” – that sounded unlike anything on the music landscape. After their latest album, “Radical Romantics”, Fever Ray remains committed to pushing artistic boundaries an questioning society’s limitations.