If you and I talked about music anytime during the past year, I probably have gushed to you already about how much I love the Swedish musician Fever Ray. She's recently confirmed that her next song would be a cover of Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street" and the vinyl for the track is now available for pre-order on her website.
It is fuckin' amazing. It's hauntingly beautiful and does Gabriel immense justice.
Andersson, the face behind Fever Ray and one half of the electronic duo the Knife, says of the track herself, "We made it more intense and faster to fit our eccentric pecussionists and energetic live musicians. It is a monotone track but we worked with the dynamics trying to make it sparkle. I listened to it a lot when I was around 15, and it still moves me. It made me start reading Anne Sexton too." (lifted from NME)
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