The Knife

"... Shaking the Habitual is, inarguably, an achievement. It is the Knife's most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal: It provides a glimpse into the desires, intellectual enthusiasms and (unsurprisingly dense) reading list guiding one of music's most shadowy duos...."
Pitchfork - Best New Music - 8.4

“We didn’t plan to make another album
We wanted to do something again but had to find a purpose
Music can be so meaningless
We had to find lust

Started to improvise
to find something less predictable
to let go of what we already knew about music
explore what we didn't
without requiring complete answers

letting go
step in to oblivion
to forget expectations

by entering the work process with an open and inquiring mindset, the record turned in to something completely different than it would have been if the end goal had been a finished album all along

Once you stop caring about rules.”

The Knife have released a short film 'The Interview'. Created in conjunction with Marit Östberg who directed the “Full of Fire” video, it goes some way to explain their intentions and thought processes behind their startling new album Shaking The Habitual, released this week to wide critical acclaim.

RIYL: Crystal Castles, Fever Ray, Daft Punk, Grimes, Royksöpp
TRY: (CD1) #1, 2, 5 // (CD2) #2, 6, 1

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