Dreijer began publicly using they/them pronouns around 2018 and ever since they’ve learnt to understand themselves better. And beyond gender binaries, therapy and an ADHD diagnosis has helped them understand how they perceive and function in the world as they continue to confront their issues with fear and confidence. “I don’t like to be afraid of things. I have to overcome them. This has taken years, but it’s a good practice.” Fever Ray speaks to a conception of gender and selfhood that feels increasingly salient. In deconstructing and making new pop and electronic textures, and complicating the human voice, Dreijer also complicates societal defaults, the deeply embedded norms. “I am part of a long history of storytellers in queer performance. I’m very grateful to be just one author in that history.” For more from our interview with Fever Ray, read the new issue of GAY TIMES Magazine at the link in bio. Words by @annagranola Photography by @lydia_garnett
Dinner for one? Thank you to the loves Martin and Nina for bringing the @wussymag cover shoot to life 🌹 we were feeling quite saucy that day 😈🍝 Creative direction @neuemartin Photography @ninaanderssonvoigt Set design @ylva.norlin
Dinner for one? Thank you to the loves Martin and Nina for bringing the @wussymag cover shoot to life 🌹 we were feeling quite saucy that day 😈🍝 Creative direction @neuemartin Photography @ninaanderssonvoigt Set design @ylva.norlin
Karin Dreijer is practising staying present 🪐 On the cover of the July issue of GAY TIMES Magazine, this is @feverray. The Swedish artist’s challenging take on pop complicates the conventions of both genre and gender. They speak to Anna Cafolla about creating a safe space for queer folks with their There’s No Place I’d Rather Be tour. Read the new cover feature at the link in bio. Words by @annagranola Photography by @lydia_garnett
We made it to Australia! Thank you Sydney☀️ see you again tonight!
We made it to Australia! Thank you Sydney☀️ see you again tonight!
Summer – here we come!🌹🌹
Dreijer, whether in The Knife or as Fever Ray, has never capitulated to the album promo-tour cycles expected in the popshere. However, in their latest album, Radical Romantics, they have expanded their art into new territories – it is Dreijer at their best, a curious musician and interrogative songwriter exploding and making new the search for love and what it means to love. “I write the lyrics. I consider the stories and let them splay out for me. But music for me is this open space.” Contemporary pop demands optimisation and acceleration, but Dreijer’s innovation is on their timeline: organic, soul-scavenging, and has a feel that they truly live the questions their music puts forth. “Creating a space for queer joy takes time, and there has to be communication, with our band and our audiences.” For more from our cover interview with Fever Ray, read the new issue of GAY TIMES Magazine at the link in bio. Words by @annagranola Photography by @lydia_garnett
Dreijer, whether in The Knife or as Fever Ray, has never capitulated to the album promo-tour cycles expected in the popshere. However, in their latest album, Radical Romantics, they have expanded their art into new territories – it is Dreijer at their best, a curious musician and interrogative songwriter exploding and making new the search for love and what it means to love. “I write the lyrics. I consider the stories and let them splay out for me. But music for me is this open space.” Contemporary pop demands optimisation and acceleration, but Dreijer’s innovation is on their timeline: organic, soul-scavenging, and has a feel that they truly live the questions their music puts forth. “Creating a space for queer joy takes time, and there has to be communication, with our band and our audiences.” For more from our cover interview with Fever Ray, read the new issue of GAY TIMES Magazine at the link in bio. Words by @annagranola Photography by @lydia_garnett
Dreijer, whether in The Knife or as Fever Ray, has never capitulated to the album promo-tour cycles expected in the popshere. However, in their latest album, Radical Romantics, they have expanded their art into new territories – it is Dreijer at their best, a curious musician and interrogative songwriter exploding and making new the search for love and what it means to love. “I write the lyrics. I consider the stories and let them splay out for me. But music for me is this open space.” Contemporary pop demands optimisation and acceleration, but Dreijer’s innovation is on their timeline: organic, soul-scavenging, and has a feel that they truly live the questions their music puts forth. “Creating a space for queer joy takes time, and there has to be communication, with our band and our audiences.” For more from our cover interview with Fever Ray, read the new issue of GAY TIMES Magazine at the link in bio. Words by @annagranola Photography by @lydia_garnett
Dreijer, whether in The Knife or as Fever Ray, has never capitulated to the album promo-tour cycles expected in the popshere. However, in their latest album, Radical Romantics, they have expanded their art into new territories – it is Dreijer at their best, a curious musician and interrogative songwriter exploding and making new the search for love and what it means to love. “I write the lyrics. I consider the stories and let them splay out for me. But music for me is this open space.” Contemporary pop demands optimisation and acceleration, but Dreijer’s innovation is on their timeline: organic, soul-scavenging, and has a feel that they truly live the questions their music puts forth. “Creating a space for queer joy takes time, and there has to be communication, with our band and our audiences.” For more from our cover interview with Fever Ray, read the new issue of GAY TIMES Magazine at the link in bio. Words by @annagranola Photography by @lydia_garnett
🍝 Fever Ray for @wussymag Vol.13!!! In our latest print issue, Arts Editor @kamikazejones_ speaks with Fever Ray about cruising culture, body horror, Swedish political theater, and whether or not they believe in ghosts. Pre-0rder WUSSY Vol. 13 now – out July 4th Creative Direction by Martin Falck (@neuemartin) Photos by Nina Andersson (@ninaanderssonvoigt)
Thank you Sydney for turning the iconic opera house into a rave for two nights❤️ tonight we dance with Melbourne! 📹 by @annak4rin
Thank you for dancing with us Melbourne! We miss you already🌹
FEVER GAY (DJ SET) @feverray Fever Gay play Eclectic Pirate Music a la Kathy Acker: “I’m no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.” Photo: Nina Andersson Voigt ☆Hus 7, Slakthusområdet, Thursday August 1st, 20-01. Follow link in bio for tickets. ☆Accessibility: Accessible bathroom available. Alcohol sales. ☆With support from Stockholms Stad ☆Graphic design by @nellieannapuig
Going to Australia was a big dream, thank you to the team who made it happen🌹 Lotje Horvers – Tour Manager Maryam Nikandish – Vocals/Dancer Joel Löf – Backline Jacob Toomey – Light tech Anna Arnbom – Social Media and Wardrobe Romarna Campbell – Drummer Darren Connor – PM Helena Gutarra – Vocals/Dancer Sarah Landau – Light Director Me🫣 Miko Hanson – Musician Oscar Söderlund – FOH engineer
Going to Australia was a big dream, thank you to the team who made it happen🌹 Lotje Horvers – Tour Manager Maryam Nikandish – Vocals/Dancer Joel Löf – Backline Jacob Toomey – Light tech Anna Arnbom – Social Media and Wardrobe Romarna Campbell – Drummer Darren Connor – PM Helena Gutarra – Vocals/Dancer Sarah Landau – Light Director Me🫣 Miko Hanson – Musician Oscar Söderlund – FOH engineer
Going to Australia was a big dream, thank you to the team who made it happen🌹 Lotje Horvers – Tour Manager Maryam Nikandish – Vocals/Dancer Joel Löf – Backline Jacob Toomey – Light tech Anna Arnbom – Social Media and Wardrobe Romarna Campbell – Drummer Darren Connor – PM Helena Gutarra – Vocals/Dancer Sarah Landau – Light Director Me🫣 Miko Hanson – Musician Oscar Söderlund – FOH engineer
Going to Australia was a big dream, thank you to the team who made it happen🌹 Lotje Horvers – Tour Manager Maryam Nikandish – Vocals/Dancer Joel Löf – Backline Jacob Toomey – Light tech Anna Arnbom – Social Media and Wardrobe Romarna Campbell – Drummer Darren Connor – PM Helena Gutarra – Vocals/Dancer Sarah Landau – Light Director Me🫣 Miko Hanson – Musician Oscar Söderlund – FOH engineer
Going to Australia was a big dream, thank you to the team who made it happen🌹 Lotje Horvers – Tour Manager Maryam Nikandish – Vocals/Dancer Joel Löf – Backline Jacob Toomey – Light tech Anna Arnbom – Social Media and Wardrobe Romarna Campbell – Drummer Darren Connor – PM Helena Gutarra – Vocals/Dancer Sarah Landau – Light Director Me🫣 Miko Hanson – Musician Oscar Söderlund – FOH engineer
Going to Australia was a big dream, thank you to the team who made it happen🌹 Lotje Horvers – Tour Manager Maryam Nikandish – Vocals/Dancer Joel Löf – Backline Jacob Toomey – Light tech Anna Arnbom – Social Media and Wardrobe Romarna Campbell – Drummer Darren Connor – PM Helena Gutarra – Vocals/Dancer Sarah Landau – Light Director Me🫣 Miko Hanson – Musician Oscar Söderlund – FOH engineer
Did you hear? Cosmic remix of What They Call Us by Âme is out tmrw ❤️🖤❤️🖤 Thank you @ame_innervisions 🌹 Artwork by @neuemartin Animation by @celesteguinness
There’s No Place I’d Rather Be: Australia tour diary 🇦🇺🌹 📹 by @annak4rin Edit by @neuemartin
GREAT FINALE! ❤️🖤❤️🖤 These are the last shows on this tour 🖤❤️🖤❤️ (Sadly the Athens promoter had to cancel our show at Lycabettus Theatre. We’d love to see you in Greece one day🌹Information on ticket refunds for Athens show at link in bio.)
