About

The Knife was a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg formed in 1999. The group consist-ed of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records.

The Knife (2001) is the band's debut release which made them a household name in their native Swe-den. The album's recordings started early in the summer of 1999 in a cottage on the Swedish island of Tjörn. The duo also recorded it in their flats in Gothenburg and Stockholm, and in a rehearsal studio in the Hökarängen district of Stockholm.

"In fact, within The Knife's considerable emotional range, and featuring the same inventive approach to synth programming and textural exploration, it already contains all the stylistic and musical elements that the duo would develop further on their later albums, encompassing both the glistening, off-kilter dance-pop of Deep Cuts and the frosty, otherworldly darkness of Silent Shout. And then of course there's Karin Dreijer's voice, which isn't subjected to nearly as much processing and digital manipula-tion here as it would be in their later work (except on the absurd, Darth Vader-referencing "A Lung"), but it's a formidable and curiously affecting instrument even in its unadulterated state." – AllMusic

Tracklist

A1        Neon   

A2        Lasagna           

A3        Kino    

B1        I Just Had To Die         

B2        I Take Time     

B3        Parade 

C1        Zapata 

C2        Bird     

C3        N.Y. Hotel       

C4        A Lung

D1       Reindeer          

D2       High School Poem       

D3       Hannah's Conscious     

D4       Vegetarian Restaurant

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