Video: Stranger Than Kindness - Fever Ray [Album Version]

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On her recent tour, Karen Dreijer, aka Fever Ray, has been selling a 7-inch that features her covering Vashti Bunyan's "Here Before," but more interestingly, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Stranger Than Kindness," a song that is as moody and dark as a regular Fever Ray track. Somewhat predictably, Fever Ray made the song even darker, relying on pitch-manipulated vocals and a rolling drum beat. Above is Fever Ray's take, and below is the original. [ Stereogum ]

When we posted the video for Fever Ray's "Seven," I included a stream of her (and Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid's) take on Vashti Bunyan's " Here Before ." As mentioned then, it shows up on a two-song tour 7" along with a cover of Nick Cave's "Stranger Than Kindness." (Maybe you picked a copy up when she stopped by Webster Hall ?) As far as the lineage, "Stranger"'s from Cave & The Bad Seed's 1986 fourth album Your Funeral... My Trial . Cave's then girlfriend/muse/collaborator/e tc Anita Lane wrote the lyrics. Bad Seed/Einstürzende Neubautener Blixa Bargeld wrote [...]