Whether with the Knife or Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer’s live albums are as essential to their body of work as their studio recordings. The Year of Radical Romantics is no exception, unifying Radical Romantics‘ nervy energy, Fever Ray’s eerie intimacy, and the kinetic pulse of Plunge into a hypnotic whole. Recorded live to tape in the studio, the charged performances from Dreijer and their touring band unite songs as varied as the haunted isolation of Fever Ray’s “When I Grow Up” and the tropical whoops of Radical Romantics‘ “New Utensils.” Even without a cheering audience, the album’s intensity rivals any concert on “Even It Out,” where Romarna Campbell’s visceral drumming magnifies the song’s feral parental rage, and on “I’m Not Done (Radical Romantics…

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