Bleep

Fever Ray’s highly anticipated third album is an examination of what humanity has been infatuated with perhaps since its very beginning, written in jittery dance beats like new sparks of young love, and full-bodied synth chaos razed with doubt. Reuniting with Olof Dreijer and an army of collaborators, Fever Ray claws at the interpersonal on Radical Romantics: amidst thunderous heartbeats, lute-like flutters, and the Eurodance sugar rush of ‘Carbon Dioxide’, they muse on the microscopic motions of lovers in ‘Tapping Fingers’, and darkly march forward on ‘North’ while recognising our preoccupation with passion is “a way to thrive”.