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Fever Ray's First Album In Eight Years, 'Plunge,' Is A Righteous Reclamation Of Kink

Across 11 tracks of coquettish synth-pop cut with neon, Karin Dreijer is not just frank about her sexual desires, but how she desires them.
Fever Ray's first album in eight years, <em>Plunge</em>, is out now.

Loving pop music means loving all pop music, or at least our ambiguous modern definition of it. For every "Teenage Dream" there's a "Call Your Girlfriend," for every "Safety Dance," there's a "Cloudbusting" – it's all in the same breath, both exploding and refining sugar in a space that is made for everyone, even if we don't always agree on its refinement. Throughout Karin Dreijer's musical career, both solo as and with her brother Olof in , she's been both sincere and conniving with respect to pop music, deeply respecting the craft in order to communicate an insurgent

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