Fever Ray's Eerie Halloween Synthpop
Karin Dreijer of The Knife’s first solo album in eight years offers bustling, bizarre dance music about sex dreams and nightmares.
As it is with costumes and movie-night picks and the gruesomeness of skeletons you tack up in your front yard, there are two kinds of Halloween music: the spooky, and the scary. The spooky is “Monster Mash” or “Thriller” or anything keyword-related but otherwise in good fun (“psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est!”). Then ... there are the songs to actually cause nightmares.
When I’ve made playlists of
