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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.
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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Deep Cuts
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Silent Shout
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The Knife
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Hannah med H
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Marble House
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We Share Our Mothers' Health
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You Take My Breath Away
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Girls' Night Out
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Neverland
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Like A Pen
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One For You
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The Captain
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You Make Me Like Charity
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Listen Now
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Na Na Na
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Forest Families
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Shoutbox
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Creative_Brain wrote:
brother and sis! best friendship ever :) love them
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yum92 wrote:
marble house<3
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sine_r wrote:
italy????
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necrobutcherr wrote:
tripple Fuck!
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GroupFour_ wrote:
awesome awesome awesome!!
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Oakenpale wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE <
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BarneyStinson66 wrote:
heartbeats <3
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tbsh wrote:
<3
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Jarri_V wrote:
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:
it'll always remain silent shout for me.
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Santaa wrote:
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:
Neon!
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Aspis wrote:
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:
new album!
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Cl_Cl_ wrote:
Heartbeats is a great song, but the other songs of Deep Cuts are not so good
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GalaxiaRetro wrote:
yeah they're releasing a cd of the 'tomorrow, in a year' opera iirc
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sambedford wrote:
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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EternalExodus wrote:
deep cuts is also great, but I feel like they tried to do a little bit too much with it... the strong songs are REALLY strong, but the weak songs are also pretty glaring. silent shout is shorter but higher quality overall, simply due to less "filler" when compared to deep cuts.
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EternalExodus wrote:
can't get enough of silent shout! incredible album!
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streetjunkie wrote:
I'm still waiting for their opera!
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Nov
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Tomorrow, in a year
Musikhuset Aarhus, Århus C, Denmark
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Nov
28
Tomorrow, in a year
Aarhus Concert Hall, Aarhus, Denmark
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Jan
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Tomorrow, in a year
Pallas Theatre, Athens, Greece
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News
Fever Ray live at Webster Hall in New York 09/28 - SOLD OUT
24 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/theknife
Fever Ray live at Webster Hall in New York 09/28 - SOLD OUT - the
last few tickets for the second show (at the same venue) on 09/29 are
available here: http://bit.ly/3Nry2.
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