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― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
based on the two songs I've heard, this album will PWN
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
my friend said the girl in the tooth for an eye video looks like she works for foot locker -_-
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
surely we could have had a searchable display name
― max, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
I said "it's great to see Lady Sovereign is still getting work" but I can't remember if that was here or Facebook ;_;
― Darth Icky (DJP), Friday, 22 March 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Friday, March 22, 2013 11:23 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
this concern did enter my mind but i vetod it
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
tlc's cover of 'if i was your girlfriend' came on and for a sec i thought i was listening to a leak due to divine providence
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
i figure if people feel the need to start a thread for this album, ilx's thread-starter thingy will show em this... and if people want to find discussion about this album 5 years later but only search for 'the knife' well... THATS ON THEM
― 乒乓, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
a lisp saying "the nice"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 22 March 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know anything about Shannon Funchess and Emily Roydson, who are they? are they good?
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Shannon Funchess is the singer from Light Asylum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB4qc7y-o60
― Fetchboy, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
She used to sing w/ !!! occasionally as well. I DJ'd with her and her partner and Martin from A Certain Ratio a few months ago. They played a lot of freestyle.
― dan selzer, Friday, 22 March 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
Smack dab in the middle of the new Knife album comes a track called "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized". It consists of precisely 19 minutes and 22 seconds worth of ominous ambient drone.
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9092-the-knife/
― Number None, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
the highlights on this album are basically astonishing
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
also i couldn't be bov'd to get into it on the other thread but those "LOL MIND BLOWN" snark posts about the things they've been saying were an ilm nadir for real
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
what do you think of the 19 minute track?
― Number None, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
it happened and it was vaguely spooky at one point and i am fairly sure i'm not going to listen to it again
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
does the album bear much relation to tomorrow in a year?
― delete (imago), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
no idea, can't remember what TIAY sounded like
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
This is the first album from an established band that I can remember in... forever where I have genuinely no idea what it's going to sound like in its entirety.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Pre-ordered the vinyl the day it was announced. Today I got this email:
Dear The Knife Fan, Thank you for your recent purchase of the Shaking the Habitual Vinyl. Unfortunately, due to an unforeseen production delay the date of dispatch for all pre-orders of this item has now been delayed. We have been advised that the shipping date for this vinyl is now the week commencing the 22nd April 2013. We will be in touch again as soon as your order has left the warehouse. We would like to thank you in advance for your co-operation and patience with us and we are sure the record will prove worth the wait. Kindest regards, Sandbag Ltd
:'( but I think my purchase included the digital version, which should be available on the 8th/9th.
― naus, Friday, 29 March 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure I can deal with the hassle of double vinyl. I'll probably stick to CD
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 29 March 2013 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
Triple vinyl. And at 180 grams each, it's over a pound of The Knife!
― naus, Friday, 29 March 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
Not a highlight, imo. TIAY-style ambient, but less dramatic. Disappointed in that one, as I envisioned something much more ambitious.
― azaera, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
I really want this to leak or for it to be available to stream. I'm so tempted to preorder the vinyl but I just can't be sure I'm going to love it enough to justify spending that much. I like the singles so far but a nineteen minute ambient drone track does not tempt me at all. I just could not get into Tomorrow in a Year at all and like others have mentioned on here it seems like it might be more of a follow up to that.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
How? I'd like people to express themselves in ways that actually capture imagination or provoke original thought/debate.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
let's just say i don't consider that pull quote either trite or wrong or obvious, and i do think it's something that still needs to be said, along with all the non-musical points about privilege the band are making at the moment, because even if you're totally, like, ovah it, this stuff is still endemic
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
fair enough, tbh it's more the paper i'd be irked with for sensationalising dissent. i haven't read interviews beyond that one.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 09:24 (eleven years ago) link
putting a pull quote on the cover isn't really sensationalising it, is it, it's in keeping with several guide covers i've seen
quite nice that it is there though, that way it gets in the brains of people who don't have an active interest in the knife or even music and who might not read the actual interview
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 09:28 (eleven years ago) link
Which other thread, and which article? The Sam Richards piece from a week ago?
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
Streaming over on Pitchfork
http://pitchfork.com/advance/62-shaking-the-habitual/
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
listening the shit out of this thing right now and enjoying it hugely
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like burning man
― caek, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
D:
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
: (
― caek, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
I love how much some of this is going to annoy people. Already seeing people on facebook saying 'I COULDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE 20 MINUTE TRACK AND TURNED IT OFF OMG'
it's pretty intense.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
intense like a nightclub in the movie "the crow"
― caek, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
So it sounds like Medicine?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
wishing this song would end, pt 3
― Dominique, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
sigh already tired of how ~divisive~ this will be
i think the high points are quite astonishingly high, and also the 20-minute drone is useless, as is the 10-minute fracking one, and whatever the other drone one was
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
'Wrap Your Arms Around Me' sounds a lot like Dead Can Dance! enjoying this so far
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
"Networking" is immense but v much like an Oni Ayhun track.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
They've sort of made a techno version of the last couple of Scott Walker records. Probably why I like it so much.
― Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
what I might like most about this is how it stops people using the lazy description "this sounds like the Knife" for EVERYTHING
― katherine, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
until everything starts sounding like this
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
this is pretty wack
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Might sound crazy but this sure as hell feels like a new Creatures album, and I mean that with full approval. Now that Siouxsie and Budgie are pretty well split on all levels, this doesn't so much take its place as stakes out its own particular space. Anyway, this is great stuff.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Given they're not actually that good at ambient/drone, I'm not sure we really need 35mins or so of it here. The rest I'm still getting my head around.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
I'm enjoying said drone...but I would.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
I like the drone too. The long one sounds like Chatham's Two Gongs.
― Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
That's the last song they play, and an older song, too - were they dancing before that, as far as you could tell?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 April 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
Where I was people were definitely dancing, both on the floor and on the balcony.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 28 April 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i never felt a balcony of this size shaking this way, that was incredible. i was dancing as well. i mean, rereading what i wrote i feel i am bit ungrateful, i mostly liked it.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 28 April 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
Sounds like these shows are a real litmus test, very divisive and often entirely dependent on your own vantage point as to whether you enjoy them or not.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link
Generally enjoyed the show. Some aspects could have been better I guess (the choreographies could have been better on some songs, that spoken word thing did nothing for me). I definitely agree that having a good view of the stage is necessary to fully appreciate it. Really enjoyed the updated versions of We Share Our Mother's Health and Bird (actually the first 5 or so songs were all incredible).
― silverfish, Monday, 28 April 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
I will be the first admit that I preferred the silly, pretentious mess I saw (imo) to most shows, because in 10 years I am more likely to remember this one than many of the more conventionally "good" shows I see. I honestly do prefer a band be controversial or divisive than complacent. I just wish I dug it more. Like I said, lots of (I felt) unforced errors, especially since the group has had time to retool things, if it wanted. Dancing could have been better or more interesting (imo). Politics/message could have been better presented/focused/developed. Opening cheerleader could have been excised. Poetry did nothing for me, though it worked as inadvertent self-parody. I guess I would have greatly preferred it not as a concert but as a proper show, at a theater, with maybe a narrative or something, a la the group's Darwin opera. Or even what the Pet Shop Boys do, performing/replicating songs but situated in the context of pretty focused show, wth A/V and dancing and songs all supporting one another. The mere two dancers on the last PSB tour, with the horned masks, I thought were more interesting and compelling and effective and affecting than the Knife's dayglo troupe.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 April 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
otm
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 28 April 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Like I said, I hated it but they're still my favourite band and would see it again
― "got ye!" (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 28 April 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
;_; I had to give my tickets to tonight's show to CAD
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Anybody have a pair of tickets to Thursdays show in Nyc that they'd be willing to trade for wed? Pls email dan at acuterecords if so!
― dan selzer, Monday, 28 April 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
xp dan i wish you had been there tonite because i genuinely would have loved to get your take on it
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 02:33 (nine years ago) link
I loved the show.
also:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/05/karin_of_the_kn.html
― dan selzer, Friday, 2 May 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
I was down with this until they started dumping bedpans full of shit on each other, still a tour remix album sounds very exciting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcXg_p-Yj18
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
That video is like an alternate world version of an episode of Glee.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
tbf the tour here was at terminal 5 which is a comparable experience to having bedpans full of shit dumped on you (the venue, not the tour)
― katherine, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
I was warned about the wed show so I showed up extra early to the thur show and stood on the balcony just behind the light people with a counter in front of me and the throngs behind.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Okay, from that description there is every possibility I was like five feet away from you at that show
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
New:
Europa Europa and The Knife -- För alla namn vi inte får användahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMXZBPW-Q0
― panic disorder pixie (Sanpaku), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
so Katherine St. Asaph reviewed Shaken-Up Versions for Pitchfork and got a rating of 7.3 yesterday. the thing is i looked it up to see if i can buy the CD version of this and according to Amazon this is MP3 only?
here is her review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19465-the-knife-shaken-up-versions/
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:40 (nine years ago) link
It's on spotify. I listened to it in the car the other day and really liked it. It's a nice combination of the clattering intensity of Shaking The Habitual and the tighter, catchier vibe of their earlier stuff.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
katherine describes the album as "remixes" three times - are they actually remixes, not re-recordings?
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't think they completely re-recorded them from scratch, but there are definitely a lot of new-sounding elements. Don't know if that counts as a remix or not.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 June 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.crowdsurge.com/store/index.php?storeid=947
got my ticket for London. Almost an anticlimax to get it first time with no hitches along the way, I was prepared to again spend hours on crashing websites.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 08:18 (nine years ago) link
nobody cares this time around?
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 08:49 (nine years ago) link
Sold out now, but I got one late yesterday afternoon, so i think yeah, they shook off a lot of people with the last London shows.
Finding Shaken-up really addictive, Got 2 Let U especially.
― woof, Thursday, 17 July 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
― rage against martin sheen (sic), Tuesday, June 24, 2014 12:47 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
vocals might have been re-recorded, it is basically The Tour: The Album
― katherine, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
any news on when the vinyl issue of this will be coming? been listening to it a lot on Spotify but this is an album that needs to live on my shelf.
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Monday, 21 July 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Our LAST tour? Not the final tour, I guess?
We are doing our last tour!In the autumn we will round up the Shaking The Habitual Show Tour with a number of European dates. After the touring last year we reworked the show during the winter. The performers, previously known as dancers, learnt how to sing and play instruments, the stage got three levels, Shannon Funchess joined us and the show became more fun and shiny. We performed it in the US in the spring and now we would love you to join us in our dance for some last shaking moves. "A handfull elf peeThat’s my soulSpray it alloverFill the bowlLegs astrideAn axe to grindGenerous actions with the speed of lightWithout you my life would be boring”See you on the dance floor.../Olof and Karin, The Knife Shaking The Habitual Show Tour Dates:Oct 31 - Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden - 22/08/14 @ 9AM CETNov 01 - Film Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden - 22/08/14 @ 9AM CETNov 03 - Arena, Berlin, Germany - Buy TicketsNov 05 - Academy, Manchester, UK - Buy TicketsNov 06 - Brixton Academy, London, UK - Buy TicketsNov 08 - Iceland Airwaves Festival, Reykjavík - Buy Tickets
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
Only got this today, a month after Merdeyeux found out... weird. Maybe those dates weren't official yet?
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 12:39 (nine years ago) link
They're breaking up after the tour.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
just saw this, kinda sucks, but I guess it's good to go out on a high note
does this mean there will be more Fever Ray albums?
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/21359/1/the-knife-are-no-more-read-their-last-interview
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
this is a bummer but i've got faith that karin dreijer andersson is going to do something amazing next
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
as a tribute, here's a free download of a chiptunes cover album from 2010 : http://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/album/the-knife-data013
― StanM, Thursday, 21 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I am sad that they are no more. But I do feel like both of them are going to come out with more fantastic work, so I'm not that sad.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
I hope they reunite for Coachella.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Thursday, 21 August 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm not really going to read too much into this "break up", considering it's on good terms and there was such a long interval between Silent Shout and Shaking the Habitual. I'd be surprised if they never made any music together again.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I am not surprised at all with them ending the Knife, which seems to be a better way to describe than a 'break up'.
Pretty cool that their last show will be in Iceland.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 August 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
bummed as they are so great together. still we might still have Fever Ray, so not all is lost.
― Bee OK, Friday, 22 August 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Not as The Knife: https://vooruit.be/en/show/detail/9505/Ful_The_Knife
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2015 11:48 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMXZBPW-Q0
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
I immediately like this more than everything on TIAD + STH
― StanM, Saturday, 7 February 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
more news - http://d-e-f.com/2015/01/23/def-2015-knife/
― StanM, Sunday, 8 February 2015 11:32 (nine years ago) link
Seems weird they're doing just one Europa Europa show, keeping my fingers crossed for some additional dates...
― willem, Sunday, 8 February 2015 11:37 (nine years ago) link
This turned ten years old a few weeks ago
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:21 (eleven months ago) link
!
― kinder, Sunday, 14 May 2023 07:17 (eleven months ago) link
Right? It's still a recent album to me. Although maybe the time is demarcated by how pivotal it felt at the time compared to how little I think about it or want to play it these days. Maybe it's to do with the album's topics now having become much more mainstream and centre-table than at the time? Although I can't remember a time when financial equality and gender rights weren't big topics?
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:05 (eleven months ago) link
feels like 10 years ago tbh
― nashwan, Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:23 (eleven months ago) link
these two posts above sum things up pretty well imo
― winters (josh), Sunday, 14 May 2023 23:38 (eleven months ago) link
Favourite album of the last ten years (plus a few weeks)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 15 May 2023 01:43 (eleven months ago) link