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(1999 – present)

The Knife is a swedish electronic duo formed in 1999. The band consists of siblings karin dreijer andersson (formerly of Honey is Cool, now Fever Ray) and Olof Dreijer - who also run their own record company, Rabid Records.

One of the group’s distinguishing characteristics is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the mainstream music scene. The group rarely makes public appearances, most of their promotional photos feature the members wearing masks, and until recently, they outright refused to perform live concerts. Recently the group has showed themselves in public wearing masks formed as bird’s beaks, similar to those used by medieval doctors.

The Knife won a Swedish Grammy award for best pop group of the year 2003, but they boycotted the ceremony by sending two representatives of another artist group dressed as gorillas with the number 50 written on their costumes, apparently as a protest against male dominance within the music industry. Their album Deep Cuts was also nominated for a Swedish Grammy as the best record of the year 2003, although that award went to The Cardigans. It was also in 2003 that the The Knife was featured as Artist of the Week at HitQuarters, which helped them gain greater attention in the worldwide music community.

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puddan wrote:
yesterday evening

Yes, finally available on Spotify

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Creative_Brain wrote:
Thursday evening

brother and sis! best friendship ever :) love them

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yum92 wrote:
Thursday evening

marble house<3

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sine_r wrote:
Thursday afternoon

italy????

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necrobutcherr wrote:
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tripple Fuck!

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GroupFour_ wrote:
Thursday morning

awesome awesome awesome!!

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Oakenpale wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE <

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BarneyStinson66 wrote:
Monday evening

heartbeats <3

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tbsh wrote:
Monday morning

<3

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Jarri_V wrote:
Saturday evening

some people still don't know it, it seems. they'll launch the album of the opera (collab with Planningtorock and Mt. Sims in the beginning of 2010 :) hopefully january.

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GalaxiaRetro wrote:
last week

it'll always remain silent shout for me.

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Santaa wrote:
last week

Hannah Med H is at the moment my favourite of their albums! I've ignored that for much too long!

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ciaar wrote:
last week

Neon!

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Aspis wrote:
last week

Hey there : ) Listen to the new remix of Tricky Tricky with vocals by Karin : ) http://www.last.fm/music/R%C3%B6yksopp/_/Tricky+Tricky+%28post50UND+Remix%29

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notanexit wrote:
last week

new album!

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Cl_Cl_ wrote:
last week

Heartbeats is a great song, but the other songs of Deep Cuts are not so good

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GalaxiaRetro wrote:
last week

yeah they're releasing a cd of the 'tomorrow, in a year' opera iirc

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sambedford wrote:
last week

Olof said it'd be a three year hiatus in 2006, meaning new stuff very soon surely? I can imagine they're just going to not mention anything, then BAM, drop another storming classic. Surely they can't beat Silent Shout though can they?

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