the kniφe - shaking the habitual

Anyone who takes it below 10.0 is a scab imo.

I wonder, can we take Brent D's Kid A review and replace all of the Radiohead references with Thatcher references and still have it be awesome?

Does anyone actually care what does and doesn't go into BNM other than lamers who want to be spoonfed everything?

― Matt DC, Monday, April 8, 2013 4:09 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Proposing an automatic threadban for anyone who's all 'Let's predict the Pitchfork score!' on an anticipation thread as well.

― Matt DC, Monday, April 8, 2013 4:11 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for fucking real

I don't like this either but actually seeing people complain about it makes me want to start a rolling "predict the Pitchfork score" thread because, well, I have a sickness

It got three-and-a-half stars in the Chislehurst Chronicle, by the way.

it's bad enough that there are so many weirdo p4k-watchers but even worse is the obsession with "bnm" and the exact fucking decimal score and then nobody can be fucked to discuss what was actually WRITTEN

obviously some arbitrary little label is much more important though

What if there was betting involved? Would it be fun then?

Talking about BNM usually happens because we know that tag affects record sales/overall attention dramatically and collectively shapes tastes in the indie world.

okay where's my popcorn

Not saying I think there is any value in predicting exact scores at all.

I like BNM as an indicator of, like, what's getting lots of traction and stuff but I certainly don't listen to BNM stuff exclusively

maybe I am a dumb indie sheep :(

ayo dudes i dont really care about BNM u can chill

It's not the only thing ever to do this to me but my first listen to this album reminded me of the super intense time I turned on the tv in the middle of the night at 10 years old and saw the entirety of Gregg Araki's The Living End.

I listened to this on headphones for the first time today and it's kind of monstrous. Although I can't work out if the drums and flutes on Without You My Life Would Be Boring are endearingly wonky or unspeakably naff. There's a distinct air of 'midday jam session in tiny Glastonbury hippy tent' about it.

'Stay Out Here' is amazing.

Endearingly wonky IMO.

There's lots of moments here that insistently and incessantly whisper '1989' to me for as yet unfathomed reasons.

"full of fire" is really growing on me - not sure if its hooks are digging in to me with time or whether, now i have the whole album, it doesn't have the weight of being wholly representative. a lot of the hooks here are in the rhythms and arrangements rather than the vocal line. also, i love how angry it is. echoes of digital hardcore

"wrap your arms around me" is the album's towering monolithic emotional peak though

LET'S TALK ABOUT GENDER BABY LET'S TALK ABOUT U & ME in the last 30 seconds is some "fancy"-level switch-up

Yeah Full of Fire sounds fantastic at high volume. In general where this album sags it's where it's not weird ENOUGH, or when they're attempting to be weird and uncompromising in fairly well-trodden ways.

Wrap Your Arms Around Me is fantastic as well.

Agreed with the above, it sounds amazing in the context of the album.

Love the brief house vamp style vocal near the beginning of "Stay Out Here", it's like Nightmares on Wax's "Aftermath".

friend of mine says the first 45 min of this are "unlistenable", t/f

omg yes xp

bits of this remind me a lot of their erstwhile collaborator & onetime imitator planningtorock, too

"Heartbeats" is overrated
― relentless technosexuality (DJP)

Please tell me you've never heard the live version.

i'm gonna buy the vinyl today and even though it comes with a cd, i don't have any cd drives at all so i'll probably have to pirate it in the end to actually listen to it on the computer (lol)

unless the vinyl comes with a free download code...............

what do you think of it - thought you didn't like it?

oh i loved the first single, i've been torturing myself in not letting myself listen to streams/youtubes until it was properly released

oh! i misinterpreted your sadface upthread then

i pretty much unreservedly love this now, i don't find it that difficult or unlistenable, apart from the two tracks which are obviously meant to be difficult and unlistenable and which can be easily ignored (and obv like once a year i'll have the time & patience to listen to the 19-min drone and i'm not going to mind)

ah, my D: was at caek's description than at the music

fresh in my inbox: http://theknife.net/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Shaking+The+Habitual+out+now

er https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F37Yg17-JQ

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/the-knife-shaking-the-habitual

this is fucking bizarre

"an album so good, it transcends criticism, but is also a large failure because of such"

is what i'm gleaming from this buffoonery

Seems like a stunt to get hits to the webpage.

that video interview reminds me of an snl skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQ6olQjebg

although it looks like they would be good at making some video collage/spoken word thingys.

i think "a cherry on top" just broke my brain

those hollow ringing sounds at the beginning of full of fire are very martin hannett, she's lost control type harrowing sounds

i'm so glad i decided not to burn myself out on the singles before picking this up - this is awesome, i am in awe. oh my god

This is excellent mopping-the-floor music. I'm using this stuff.

all of the tracks aren't on spotify

not good

Was just noticing the same. Are the missing tracks essential or are they all abstract drones?

hahaha i have no idea, but i'd like to hear the whole album.

i just got this on single CD, without that 19 minute song. have not heard a note of this as of yet, so excited about hearing this for the first time.

i just got this on single CD, without that 19 minute song. have not heard a note of this as of yet, so excited about hearing this for the first time.

― Bee OK

What's the packaging like for the single disc version? I have only seen the double disc version in the shops so far and it looks really nice. It's a cardboard sleeve that folds out into some extra artwork or something. I was thinking of getting the single disc but I'm easily seduced by fancy packaging.

get the 3xLP it comes w/ the cds

i ordered it online, so i will tell you in a few days. Amoeba is about an hour away. i think it's just a standard jewel case type of thing. i didn't want two CD's with one song i will only play once in awhile.

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