Karin Dreijer’s Fever Ray project unites futuristic club rhythms with gothic overtones and an iconoclastic edge. When the solo outing debuted with 2008’s “If I Had a Heart,” the Swedish singer, songwriter, and producer was already widely acclaimed for their work in The Knife, a morphing electronic collaboration with their sibling, Olof. With its distinctive pitch-shifted vocals and ominous synth tones, that glowering first single has earned a lasting presence in pop culture, becoming the theme song of the long-running TV series Vikings and inspiring remixes, covers and samples. Dreijer stoked a similarly heightened atmosphere across Fever Ray’s self-titled debut album in 2009, as heard amid the surreal lyrical imagery of “When I Grow Up.” Eight years later, Dreijer released Plunge, their second Fever Ray album. Musically lighter, brighter, and more daring, songs like “To the Moon and Back” and “A Part of Us” revealed an artist more confident in themselves, more self-aware, more fun. After another sizable gap between releases, Dreijer returned with more elaborate sounds, characters and concepts on 2023’s Radical Romantics—largely co-produced with Olof in a spiritual reunion of The Knife—while embracing their natural voice on cuts like “Kandy” and “What They Call Us.”