Fever Ray "s/t"

I was sucked in by this cd cover.  Most of the time I use the marvel of technology to check out something before I purchase it.  I saw this disc by #feverray in a used bin and was drawn in by the cover illustration.  I decided to go old school and just buy it on a gut feeling because of that art.  I've been burned by that in the past many times but I was feeling nostalgic for the pre-cell phone access to the Internet era. I took this home.  It's a great music-noir album much like the cover implies. Dark cinematic songs that make me think of an electronic era Nico.  I felt vindicated to have discovered this cd organically, just through bin flipping.  I've listened to this one alot and someone occasionally plays it at the tattoo shop which is always a welcome melancholic treat.  One of my favorite things to do is spend hours flipping through CDs in bins. The hypnotic tick-tick-tick as strange and sometimes familiar album art cascades in front of me.  It excersizes my brain as I make split second assessments of album art and tests my encyclopedic recall abilities as I try to remember discographies, friend's suggestions and holes in my collection.  I find zen in doing it even if I don't purchase anything  (which is rare).  The keepers that you discover this way feel intimate.  Like there was some psychic tendril that reached out to you and because of your honed recepticles you were able to perceive the bond.  The ones that don't work out (which are most of them) I chalk up to talented artists and manipulative art directors. They have studied us and we're able to counterfeit the ago of a good release. Or it might be that I'm just so eager to find that next album that changes my musical landscape from that moment on that I allow myself to be coerced like a desperate lover.  When the stars align and this sort of purchase works out it validates the process and I continue to crate dig.