Live at Troxy by Fever Ray

Album cover for Live at Troxy - Fever Ray
1. An Itch
5:28
2. A Part of Us
3:52
3. When I Grow Up
4:26
4. Mustn't Hurry
4:36
5. This Country
3:24
6. Falling
5:14
7. Wanna Sip
3:43
8. I'm Not Done
4:47
9. Red Trails
5:08
10. Concrete Walls
5:50
11. To the Moon and Back
4:45
12. Triangle Walks
3:50
13. IDK About You
4:03
14. Keep the Streets Empty for Me
7:20
15. If I Had a Heart
4:05
16. Mama's Hand
5:17

On Fever Ray’s studio albums, much of the focus for principal performer Karin Dreijer (one half of Swedish sibling electronic duo The Knife) lay squarely on the otherworldly production: eerie, futuristic, more than a little bit goth. Onstage, Fever Ray and their collaborators are as bewitching as ever, but here, Dreijer's charismatic persona comes to the fore. Recorded at a 2018 show at London’s Troxy theatre, the set tilts towards songs from the previous year’s <i>Plunge</i>, an album whose themes (desire, radicalism and smashing societal norms) yield particularly impassioned performances, especially on the seething “This Country”. But six songs from Fever Ray’s self-titled 2009 debut also make the cut—with chestnuts like “When I Grow Up” and “Triangle Walks” given a percussive, downright funky spin—and the feverish response from the 3000-strong crowd is truly something to behold.