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Follow the dripping foot: The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson sang on Röyksopp's 2005 single "What Else Is There?" Danish director Martin de Thurah directed that song's video, which is probably one of the best clips of the decade. That is not an exaggeration: it's the sort of video Björk used to make. (In it, a floating model sings Karin's part, but the mysterious Swede does show up with a haunting scowl about two-thirds of the way through.)

So news of Andersson and de Thurah re-teaming for a new clip from Dreijer Andersson's Fever Ray project is oh so welcomed. De Thurah will direct the video for "When I Grow Up", a song in which Andersson sings about plant-sitting, facials, and boomerangs. It's not the most linear lyric. And de Thurah isn't the most linear lens man.

Here's his equally abstract-but-brilliant treatment: "That initial idea was something about something coming out of water-- something which was about to take form-- a state turning into something new. And a double headed creature not deciding which where to turn. But the idea had to take a simpler form, to let the song grow by itself. I remembered a photo I took in Croatia two years ago, a swimming pool with its shining blue color in a grey foggy autumn landscape." Don't worry, it will be better than Lady in the Water.

Here's an appropriately ominous still from the video, which should hit the internet soon:

More good Fever Ray news: Dreijer Andersson is going on tour. Sure, it's a brief, eight-date tour that doesn't reach beyond Scandinavia. But, hey, maybe this is the beginning. The last time I saw Andersson on stage, she was behind a screen and wearing a mask. Well, I think it was her. Either way, she killed.

Fever Ray dates:

03-19 Oslo, Norway - Parkteatern
03-20 Malmö, Sweden - Babel
03-21 Göteborg, Sweden - Storan
03-22 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
03-24 Helsinki, Finland - Tavastia
03-26 Stockholm, Sweden - Kägelbanan
03-27 Umeå, Sweden - Umeå Open
03-28 Luleå, Sweden - Kulturens Hus