{"product_id":"country_creatures","title":"Country Creatures","description":"\u003cp\u003eCountry Creatures is a collaborative remix EP rather than a full album, bringing together Björk, Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer), and The Knife for a three-track exchange built around two 2017 songs: Fever Ray’s “This Country” (from Plunge) and Björk’s “Features Creatures” (from Utopia). The three remixes were first released digitally as separate singles on September 6, 2019, then collected on a limited 12-inch EP issued by One Little Indian on November 1, 2019, with cover art that visually splices elements from both Plunge and Utopia. The EP’s title comes from the song names themselves—“This Country” and “Features Creatures”—underlining the idea of a “remix swap” between two artists with distinct but sympathetic experimental pop vocabularies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tracklist runs just under 12 minutes and consists of three pieces: Björk’s remix of “This Country,” retitled “This Country Makes It Hard to Fuck,” and two different remixes of “Features Creatures,” one by Fever Ray and one by The Knife. Björk’s version turns “This Country” into a dissonant, industrial-leaning collage, adding her own vocals and intensifying the original’s critique of nationalism and sexual repression, described by outlets like Consequence as a “disturbing, dissonant industrial” reworking. In turn, Fever Ray’s and The Knife’s remixes of “Features Creatures” offer contrasting angles on Björk’s track: Fever Ray’s take is moody and atmospheric, emphasizing murky synth textures and vocal manipulation, while The Knife’s version is more vigorous and dance-oriented, with sharper, pulsating rhythms that highlight the siblings’ club and techno sensibilities. Together, these pieces function as a tight, conceptually unified mini-project that showcases how three closely linked but distinct voices in experimental pop interpret and inhabit each other’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53785182765370,"sku":"39448","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-23_at_3.58.24_PM.jpeg?v=1784836791","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/country_creatures","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}