“When I Grow Up” Video by Fever Ray

When I Grow Up video from Karin Dreijer Andersson’s solo project, Fever Ray.

Publicity shot of Karin Dreijer Andersson.

Karin Drei­jer Ander­s­son has a solo album out now, under the name Fever Ray. She is one-​half of the sib­ling pair that is The Knife, and the solo album is very much a con­tin­u­a­tion of their moody work on Silent Shout.

This is the second Fever Ray video, and it’s a nice com­pli­ment to the gothy/creepy visu­als in the first video, If I Had a Heart, which was directed by fre­quent Knife col­lab­o­ra­tor Andreas Nils­son. (See the video for Silent Shout, and his visu­als for their last tour.)

And no, that’s not Karin in the video – she hasn’t appeared reg­u­larly in her videos since her days in the Swedish indie band Honey is Cool, in the 90s. (A few notable excep­tions include You Take My Breath Away, a chip­per duet with former First Floor Power front-​woman Jenny Wilson, and her guest vocals on Röyksopp’s club hit What Else is There? No, she’s not the float­ing chick, but the one sit­ting at the table, mid-​way through.)

Speak­ing of that Röyksopp song, this video is directed by the same direc­tor, Martin de Thurah, a Danish film­maker that seems to have a thing for effects and screw­ing around with the laws of physics – beau­ti­ful work.

I warmed to the album almost instantly, but seeing the songs come to life in these videos, they’ve started to take on a cin­e­matic qual­ity inside my head. Like all of Karin’s work, some people might be turned off by her singing style or be too quick to dis­miss her as Björk-lite. I like this album, and I like it more and more after each listen.

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