I’ve always been a fan of The Knife, so naturally I’ve been anticipating Karin Dreijer’s Fever Ray solo project for a while. It will be officially available for download tomorrow, but eh, unofficially it is already out there. The video for the first single is amazingly eerie and beautiful, just like other The Knife releases. And it creeped the hell out of me. Somehow it reminds me of the woods that were standing on the edges of my parent’s backyard when I was young. I used to be oddly attracted to the dark woods at night but was way too scared to get my foot in. This video captures the essence of what I was (and still am) afraid of. That’s even scarier than the woods itself.

Photo taken by Wexner Center, Flickr Creative Commons

They’ve got Guided by Voices written all over them. Love it. Love the smothering lo-fi noise. It’s just like a winter storm for the ear, numbing and comforting at the same time.