Catalogue : Pias-Rapid / RABID091LP
Format : 2LP, Limited. Numbered, Poster
Condition : New
Country : Sweden
Released : 2023
Genre : Electronic, Wave
Radical Romantics, the first new album in five-plus years from Fever Ray (aka Karin Dreijer). Sonically it has more Knife-y qualities than anything else Karin has released under their own name, but Radical Romantics is very much a solo project and Karin is very much the centrepoint. It feels like it changes each time you listen to it, it’s both ambitious and accomplished and we’ve been playing it a lot.
In the world of Radical Romantics, Fever Ray presents their struggle with love, or to be precise, the myth of love. Following 2017’s Plunge, Radical Romantics speaks to both the heart and the head, the dance floor and the bedroom. Dreijer is one of pop’s true visionaries, and in their hands, crude and familiar clay is twisted into endlessly beautiful and terrible forms that balance strength with vulnerability, anxiety with safety