Shaking The Habitual

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AlbumApr 05 / 201313 songs, 1h 36m 19s
Electronic Post-Industrial Experimental
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8.4 / 10

The Knife's first album in seven years is the Swedish duo's most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal, a musical manifesto advocating for a better, fairer, weirder world.

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From the lawless abandon of its music to the off-the-rails cacophony of its videos (check out the polychromatic clip for 2006’s “We Share Our Mothers’ Health,” off that year’s Silent Shout), The Knife’s Olof Dreijer and Karen Dreijer Andersson have made disorder their lives’ work. In this group’s hands, even a medium…

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The Swedish siblings' fourth record reveals an admirable pool of ideas, thrilling noises, rare, unpredictable melodies and a huge amount of imagination.

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As befits a duo that dreams up an opera based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species, The Knife is one of the…

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On their fourth studio album, the Knife don't change their habits as much as they push themselves to extremes.

Accompanied by a manifesto expressing distaste for the 'already imagined', siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer's first record as The Knife in seven years is a disquieting and structureless piece of work that speaks of an endemic dissatisfaction with most of the systems in which we both live and make art, its own insistent shapelessness being itself an attempt to – well – shake the habitual.

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News flash: If The Knife doesn't freak you out, you're not listening hard enough. Swedish siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson's first album since 2006's Silent Shout is 13 tracks, clocking in at an impressive 90 minutes, and they're not out

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ClashMusic: Read an album review of 'Shaking The Habitual' the new album by Swedish duo The Knife, Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, on their Rabid Records label.

The Knife's fourth album cuts cerebral references with primal urges to winning effect, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>

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It isn’t so much “Shake Your Love” as it is Shakespeare…translated into alien biometric rhythms tapping out iambic pentameter.

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The Knife have ditched pop songs in&nbsp;favour of Foucault quotes and 19-minute drones. It's as hard work as it sounds, writes <strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>

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The Knife - Shaking the Habitual review: In comparisons to the duo's other efforts,

The Knife, Shaking the Habitual is the Swedish siblings’ first album in seven years and it takes the listener to a lot of places – instinctive, physical, detached and intellectual, says Helen Brown.

Swedish brother-sister duo make their declaration for the epoch. CD review by Kieron Tyler

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