Fever Dreams

***Fever Dreams*** is the 4th studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter, Flower Face, officially released on April 5th, 2016 through digital download and streaming. Every song on this record is written and recorded entirely by Flower Face.

## Background

Flower Face got diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer at seventeen. Battling this personal strife, Flower Face states that she did all of the writing on *Fever Dreams* before her diagnosis. Still, she recorded a decent amount of the lyrics afterward. In a 2016 interview, Flower Face briefly mentions the cancer diagnosis and how it affected the recording and release of *Fever Dreams*.

> It’s pretty terrifying ‘cause it’s one of those things that always happens to other people. You never in a million years think it will happen to you. And then it does and it’s so unreal for the whole run of it and then you’re left in the aftermath with all the feelings hitting you at once. All the writing on *Fever Dreams* was done before my diagnosis but a good amount of it was recorded afterwards. I don’t really think it affected it that much. I’ve written some songs about the whole thing so someday I may release them. Who knows? My writing has always been and will always be dark! It’s just the art I produce. It’s not on purpose. I’ve seen some people posting online saying “*Funeral Kid* makes sense now” after finding out about my diagnosis. I want to respond and say “No, I wrote that years ago! That’s just what I’m like!” (Flower Face, 2016)
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## Tracklisting

### Standard Tracklist

As listed on the Spotify, Bandcamp, and Apple Music pages for ***Fever Dreams***.

### SoundCloud Tracklist

As listed on the SoundCloud page for ***Fever Dreams***.

## Music Videos

Flower Face - Jupiter (Official Video - 2021 Version)Jupiter (Official Video - 2021 Version)
## Album Description

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## Personnel

Credits adapted from the Bandcamp page for *Fever Dreams* and Spotify.

### Instruments

* Nathan McNevin - additional drum recordings (tracks 2,3,4,9) *"Virgin," "Raphael," "Stranger," & "Jupiter"*
* Nathan McNevin - additional guitar recordings (tracks 2,3,4,9) *"Virgin," "Raphael," "Stranger," & "Jupiter"*

### Technical & Production

* Flower Face - production (all tracks)
* Joshua Kaiser - production (track 4) *"Stranger"*
* Martin Bak - production (track 9) *"Jupiter"*
* Martin Bak - mastering at SLR tudios (all tracks)

## Release

### Fever Dreams (Album)

* Bandcamp - April 5th, 2016
* Apple Music - April 5th, 2016
* SoundCloud - April 5th, 2016
* Spotify - March 20th, 2017

### Jupiter (Song)

* Original release - April 5th, 2016
* Spotify release - March 20th, 2017
* 2021 re-release - October 8th, 2021

## Trivia

This album was recorded entirely at home "with endless love and melancholy," on her father's GarageBand app.

With this record, no music videos were recorded or released, but in 2021, Flower Face directed, shot, and edited a dance choreographed by Roger Wellington and the Walkerville Center for the Creative Arts dance team. In the 2021 re-release, the song has not changed since the original release.

*Fever Dreams* is the first Flower Face album to be officially released on Spotify.

## References

1. ↑ https://flowerface.bandcamp.com/album/fever-dreams
2. ↑ https://fallenloverecords.tumblr.com/post/144555909649/interview-flower-face
3. ↑ https://flowerface.bandcamp.com/album/fever-dreams
4. ↑ https://nettwerk.com/artist/flower-face/
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZzampsjTLo