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Fever Ray “To the Moon and Back”

I wouldn’t have expected Karin Dreijer’s first new song in several years to be something of a throwback to the aesthetics of The Knife’s Deep Cuts, but it’s a very welcome surprise. “To the Moon and Back” has a perky bounce to it, and melodies that are overtly catchy while resisting the traditional verse/chorus/verse structure of pop music. The song is very generous with the listener, but holds back from providing the catharsis of a chorus. This seems rather deliberate – the lyrics are full of lust and anticipation, and while there’s some vivid action going in the words, it’s always just shy of a literal or figurative climax. There’s the old saying “always leave ‘em wanting more,” and that applies here, even more so because the song is very much about wanting more.

Buy it from iTunes.