Fever Ray shares “Shiver” video

Here’s a Valentine’s Day hot tip for all you lonely hearts out there: get on the apps and send Fever Ray‘s “Shiver” video to your matches. Only the ones who respond positively are worth spending any of your precious time on. The new visuals for Karin Dreijer’s experimental electro-pop project come from frequent collaborator Martin Falck; Main, the trollish office drone Dreijer has portrayed in this era of visuals, falls from the sky to a red planet. They’re healed by a buff doctor, played by none other than International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation pro bodybuilder Irene Andersen, whose office also doubles as a BDSM chamber. Some light physiotherapy ensues.

The new clip was inspired by the Lovers of Valdero, a pair of Stone Age skeletons that were buried for millennia in an intimate embrace. “We fantasized about what might have happened to these two skeletons,” Dreijer says. “Were they so in love they had their mouths and noses too close to each other, or couldn’t stop kissing so they died of carbon monoxide poisoning? Or did a dinosaur kill them, and they died in fear holding each other? Was it a volcano, and they were protecting themselves from the lava burning their flesh? Maybe they weren’t in love at all; perhaps they were lifelong enemies facing their final struggle strangling each other? We felt there was a beautiful story there about the struggles of falling in love and the vulnerability you might feel being ‘examined’ by your love interest who wants to make sure you really are the one they can trust and form a relationship with, that will last for eternity.”

Watch the video for “Shiver” above. The song appears on Radical Romantics, one of our favorite albums of 2023. Dreijer stopped by The FADER Interview podcast to discuss it last year; listen here.