The Knife have released a short film 'The Interview'. Created in conjunction with Marit Östberg who directed the “Full of Fire” video, it goes some way to explain their intentions and thought processes behind their startling new album Shaking The Habitual, released this week to wide critical acclaim.
You can watch the film HERE.
“We didn’t plan to make another album
We wanted to do something again but had to find a purpose
Music can be so meaningless
We had to find lust
Started to improvise
to find something less predictable
to let go of what we already knew about music
explore what we didn't
without requiring complete answers
letting go
step in to oblivion
to forget expectations
by entering the work process with an open and inquiring mindset, the record turned in to something completely different than it would have been if the end goal had been a finished album all along
Once you stop caring about rules.”
You can buy Shaking The Habitual now from http://theknife.net/shaking-the habitual or http://www.itunes.com/theknife
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"The record thrums with libidinal energies and animal instincts as well as mutable electronic frequencies"
“Instead of sharing different heartbeats, she and brother Olof Dreijer are once again quickening them."
"A frenetic techno pulse runs throughout Habitual, but while most of the dance-music world is mad about MDMA, they're more interested in DNA, in the way that electro-stimulus can work its mutating magic at the cellular level, resequencing genes according to the logic of an undulating oonce-ooncebeat."
-SPIN
"-a fearless piece of work with its own logic, one that shears away all safety nets."
-NME
-NME
"The reclusive duo's new album is an epic, occasionally haunting tour de force."
-Billboard
-Billboard
“Shaking the Habitual is, inarguably, an achievement.
It is the Knife's most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal”
-Pitchfork 8.4, Best New Music
"...the Knife has created a work of art that’s not just a dream waiting to be realized, but a living, breathing reality that’s waking you up to what’s possible in the wildest of imaginations."
-PopMatters 9/10
"Shaking The Habitual isn’t an album that you can consume piecemeal; it’s an album that demands that you get in its level."
–Stereogum
"This music has deep weirdness but incredible will and charisma."
-New York Times
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