Michael D. Ayers, N.Y.
It's shaping up to be a busy year for Swedish electro-pop outfit
the Knife, which is presently working on the score for a Danish
Opera about Charles Darwin, titled "Tomorrow, In a Year."
The piece is slated to debut in September, with the music possibly
serving as the follow-up to the Knife's breakthrough 2006 album,
"Silent Shout."
"I think it will be a CD, if it turns out well," the Knife's Karin
Dreijer Andersson tells Billboard.com. "It's a very interesting
subject. I don't think our albums have been very similar, and this
will definitely be something else."
Andersson recently released her first solo album, under the name
Fever Ray. Currently available in only digital formats, the
self-titled 10-song set will be released physically March 24 on
Mute.
"I think I wanted to do something slower, and more monotone, than I
had done before," Andersson says of the project, which was inspired
by the Jim Jarmusch film "Dead Man" and Tomahawk's "Anonymous"
album. "I worked every day from morning until afternoon. It was a
very intense period of time."
"Fever Ray" was recorded over the course of a year, which Andersson
confesses is probably the quickest she's ever worked. "At first it
was a little bit scary," she says, "But when I got into it a couple
of months later, it was very nice to not to have to compromise
anything [and ]really go into the craft without anyone else
interfering."
Andersson will take Fever Ray on the road for a short run of eight
shows in Scandinavia, beginning March 19.