My final feature from Pitchfork’s list of 2023’s best songs is the electro-pop track ‘Shiver’ by Swedish act Fever Ray (a project by musician Karin Dreijer).

This is the sort of Bjork-ian weirdness that music critics seem required to like. One of the reasons I’m glad I’m a fan and not a critic is the lack of responsibility to keep up with artists and songs like this.

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