Fever Ray: 'Music has its own value'

Fever Ray, aka The Knife star Dreijer Andersson, has said that she would prefer to make music without having to promote it with interviews.

The 'Triangle Walks' musician told The Guardian that she is not interested in the personal lives of her own influences.

Andersson said: "I just think that if you create good music, as art it has its own value, and I don't think so much it has to do with the person behind it. Would I like to just make music and not promote it at all? Like, not do interviews? Yes.

"I've read almost no books about artists. I'm just interested in the performance part of it. Sometimes I'd like to know how female artists combine their family and their work, but that is more practical advice. I'm not interested in what they had for breakfast."

She added that she will be retiring the Fever Ray project after a final live gig in London in December.

"I don't know what will happen," she said. "I will probably start to work with [brother and The Knife bandmate] Olaf [Dreijer] again. That will take ages, to make an album. But for Fever Ray, for a very long time, it's the last."