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Fever Ray: "Stranger Than Kindness" (Nick Cave Cover) (Stream)

11:41 a.m. · October 14, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

On her recent tour, Karen Dreijer, aka Fever Ray, has been selling a 7-inch that features her covering Vashti Bunyan's "Here Before," but more interestingly, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' "Stranger Than Kindness," a song that is as moody and dark as a regular Fever Ray track. Somewhat predictably, Fever Ray made the song even darker, relying on pitch-manipulated vocals and a rolling drum beat. Above is Fever Ray's take, and below is the original. [Stereogum]