Fever Ray - Stranger than Kindness

a lot of the props used in this video were used in the live show..

the big animal like costumes, numerous flickering lampshades and the green lazors. in fact after watching this i can see where the elements of the show are derived from, everything about her performance is so artisticly dark and enchanting.

The Stranger Than Kindness music video explores subtleties of light and colour in a range of dark eerie settings, continuing Karin’s regular use of masks, pitch shifting and theatrical device. Karin and her collaborators interact with lasers, lamps and moonlight.

Credits

The Stranger Than Kindness track was originally written by Australians Nick Cave and Anita Lane, and recorded by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on their 1986 album, Your Funeral, My Trial.

Filming was shot by Swedish director Andreas Nilsson.

Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid are Henrik von Sivers and Peder Mannerfelt.

Lyrics

Stranger than kindness
Bottled light from hotels
Spilling everything
Wet hand from the volcano
Sobers your skin
Stranger than Kindness
You caress yourself
And grind my soft cold bones below
Your map of desire
Burned in your flesh
Even a fool can come
A strange lit stair
And find a rope hanging there
Stranger than kindness

Keys rain like heaven’s hair
There is no home there is no bread
We sit at the gate and scratch
The gaunt fruit of passion
Dies in the light
Stranger than kindness

Your sleeping hands journey
They loiter
Stranger than kindness
You hold me so carelessly close
Tell me I’m dirty
Stranger than kindness