The Knife - Shaking The Habitual - Album Previews

The Knife's album Shaking The Habitual drops on April 8th and here you can preview next single A Tooth For An Eye and also A Cherry On Top (same as the teaser) + Fracking Fluid Injection. Wow, we can definitely hear it's the Dreijer siblings but they have taken their new material into a new realm - a more experimental and darker path. They are digging deeper into electronical music, gender and society as a whole. Listen belooow! Thoughts? For Full of Fire - the first single click here! 

The Knife - A Tooth For An Eye

The Knife - A Cherry On Top

The Knife - Fracking Fluid Injection

Update: Here's another preview! Listen to Wrap Your Arms Around Me - a bombastic number for sure! Click here for the video to A Tooth For An Eye! 

The Knife - Wrap Your Arms Around Me (Preview)

The Knife - Full of Fire - Video Premiere

The Knife premiered their Full of Fire single last week - and here's the Marit Östberg directed short film to it! This track fits perfectly as the soundtrack to these visuals. Östberg - a Berlin based queer feminist porn director and producer has created a truly unique piece that fits Karin and Olof's storytelling perfectly. To the hard industrial beat we get striking visuals discussing sexuality, gender identity + expression, social class and uproar to oppression of various forms. Have a look below! Thoughts? Says Marit:

The film ‘Full of Fire’ started to grow as an embryo in the song´s lines ‘Who looks after my story’. Who takes care of our stories when the big history, written by straight rich white men, erase the complexity of human's lives, desires and conditions? The film ‘Full of Fire’ consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.”

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The Knife - Full of Fire - World Premiere

The Knife drop their 09:16 minute single Full of Fire from upcoming album Shaking The Habitual next week - but already you can hear it in full if you have some patience! Holy crap! It's a full on aggressive dance marathon that you'll need some comfy sneakers and a dark basement full of cold beverages to fully enjoy. Karin and Olof are not messing around that's for sure! The track feels like a dark tunnel full of scary animals and blinking lights and you can be certain you'll need to fight off at least a few monkeys before you (maybe) make it out to the other side. (We'll update with a full player once it becomes available.)  Enjoy!

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Fever Ray - Now's The Only Time I Know (Gossip Rework) - Free Download

While we await the new The Knife album Shaking The Habitual come April - go grab this Gossip rework of Karin Dreijer-Andersson's Fever Ray track Now's The Only Time I Know! It replaces the original version's xylophone and synth universe with guitars and drums! No wonder since Hannah and Nathan of Gossip are so badass at it! Check it out + download belooow! 

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The Knife - Shaking The Habitual - Album Teaser

We adore The Knife and their body of work! Just now the Dreijer siblings uploaded a teaser called We asked our friends and lovers to help us, and a new image + new logo on their website. How exciting is this? New music from them just in time for the holidays? Be still our beating heart! No info as of yet, but we'll keep you posted! How AMAZING does that pic look? 

Music can be so meaningless.
We had to find lust.
We asked our friends and lovers to help us. - The Knife

Update: The album title is Shaking The Habitual, which could be found in the source code of the band’s homepage. SNEAKY fans! LOVE the title!

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