The solo project of
the Knife's
Karin Dreijer,
Fever Ray shares some of her main group's icy electronic atmospheres, but takes a slightly more organic-sounding approach.
Fever Ray began after
the Knife finished their promotional duties for their 2006 album
Silent Shout and
Dreijer had her second child; she worked on demos and song ideas by herself, then collaborated with producer Christoffer Berg, who had mixed
the Knife's music. Word of the project surfaced during the summer of 2008 and the first music, an instrumental version of "If I Had a Heart," appeared on
Fever Ray's MySpace page that fall. Fever Ray was available in January 2009 as a digital download, and the album was physically released that spring. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide