Planningtorock’s Janine Rostron has worked with the Knife, so her unsettling videos and facial prosthetics will always exist in Fever Ray’s oddly shaped shadow. Yet 2006’s Have It All predated that partnership. Back then, Rostron was in love with Berlin (the city); on W’s “Manifesto,” she’s a “believer of circular love” (object undefined), chanting and moaning and chirping in a pitched-down voice. Elsewhere, she’s “your man,” in love with “someone.” Cheesy, horn-honking synths intertwine with strings and piano to obscure what’s acoustic and synthetic. But sometimes confusion is sexy.
