Mercy Street

VINYL FORMAT. Fever Ray aka Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife is back. Having performed spellbinding live covers of well-loved tracks by artists as varied as Nick Cave, Vashti Bunyan and Peter Gabriel, her cover of the latter's "Mercy Street" is officially released on a covetable limited edition 7". The 7" single also includes album track "Dry and Dusty."

Gabriel wrote "Mercy Street" about influential Pulitzer Prize winning American poet Anne Sexton, with the track taking its title from her 1969 play of the same name. The cover is chillingly atmospheric, all driving beats and Dreijer Andersson's crystalline vocals imploring us to "wait until darkness comes." In Karin's own words: "It's an interpretation of Peter Gabriel's 'Mercy Street.' We made it more intense and faster to fit our eccentric percussionists and energetic live musicians. It is a monotone track but we worked with the dynamics trying to make it sparkle. I listened to it a lot when I was around fifteen, and it still moves me. It made me start reading Anne Sexton too."