Video hit Fever Ray

Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me

The official video for Keep The Streets Empty For Me, taken from Fever Ray's debut album 'Fever Ray' directed by Jens Klevje and Fabian Svensson.

"Fever Ray and the song Keep the Streets Empty struck us immediately with its fateful sound and images of abandoned suburbia begun to grow in front of our eyes. We wanted to continue the journey that started in the former videos and our ambition was to catch the feeling in a very direct and true way and create a video where dream and reality intertwine." - Fabian and Jens.

Fever Ray is stage name of Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson (born 7 April 1975).

She is the lead vocalist of the electronic music duo The Knife, formed with her brother Olof Dreijer. Andersson was previously the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Honey Is Cool. Andersson released her debut solo album under the name Fever Ray in 2009.

Her vocal style is notable for both shrill and deep tones, and also the use of multitracked vocals, with different uses of pitch-shifting technology on each track, creating an intricate and mysterious effect.

Visually, Andersson employs the use of masks, face and body paint, intricate costumes, and other theatrical elements in photo shoots, videos and live performances, during which she often performs behind a gauze screen that partially obscures her from view.

Andersson performed as Fever Ray at the 2010 Coachella Festival and received positive reviews.

In September of the same year, she performed at Electric Picnic in Ireland and at Bestival in England.

Contrary to a statement from the film's director, Andersson did not make a cameo appareance in the 2011 film Red Riding Hood. However, the soundtrack features the exclusive track "The Wolf", which Andersson co-wrote with her band members, as well as "Keep the Streets Empty for Me".

Andersson wrote the music for the theatrical adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1968 horror film Hour of the Wolf, which premiered at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre on 12 March 2011.

One of these tracks, "No Face", appeared in demo form on the 2012 compilation album We Are the Works in Progress, organised by Blonde Redhead to benefit victims of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

The lyrics:

Memory comes when memory's old

I am never the first to know

Following the stream up North

Where do people like us float

There is room in my lap

For bruises, asses, hand claps

I will never disappear

Forever, I'll be here

Whispering

Morning, keep the streets empty for me

I learned to not eat the snow

My fur is hot, my tongue is cold

On a bed of spider web

I think about to change myself

A lot of hope in a one man tent

There's no room for innocence

Take me home before the storm

Velvet mites will keep us warm

Whispering

Morning, keep the streets empty for me

Uncover our heads and reveal our souls

We were hungry before we were born