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The Knife: Tomorrow in a Year

Scandinavian electro-opera doesn’t translate from stage to disc Co-written by Scandinavian duo the Knife and Berlin-based one-member-bands Planningtorock and Mt. Sims, Tomorrow, in a Year has been billed as an opera based on Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, but it’s actually more of an elaborate, multimedia performance-art piece. Premiering in Copenhagen last fall, the production incorporated dance, video and laser lights to create an eerily unsettling experience. The concept was ambitious but, unfortunately, in releasing Tomorrow as an album, the team divorces the music from the stage and leaves the songs stranded in a mire of effects and noise....  read more

Listen to The Knife's Tomorrow, in a Year

Next month, a studio version of The Knife’s dark, Darwin-inspired opera, Tomorrow, in a Year, will be released in the U.S. and abroad, with digital downloads being made available Feb. 2....  read more

The Knife to Release Studio Version of Darwin-Inspired Opera

Siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson of Sweden’s The Knife spent the aughts delivering dark electro music from off the beaten path. True to form, Tomorrow, in a Year, The Knife’s first release of the new decade comes from way, way off that path....  read more

Download The Knife's "Colouring of Pigeons"

Download The Knife's "Colouring of Pigeons" here.The Knife's Tomorrow, in a Year will be released March 1 on Mute....  read more

Röyksopp to send Junior out into the world this Spring

It's been four interminable years since Röyksopp, the electro-princes of Norway, released a full-length album. But chill-out dens the world over can release a puff of smoke and an underwhelming "hurrah," as this year marks the release of Junior, the duo's third LP, as well as a smattering of European tour dates....  read more

Silent Shout To Get Deluxe Treatment

Mute Records has announced the deluxe edition of The Knife’s critically acclaimed 2006 LP, Silent Shout, slated for release on May 8th, 2007. The three-disc package will include, in addition to a CD of the album, a previously-unreleased audio recording of one of the band’s stunning live shows, a DVD featuring footage of the same concert (directed by Andreas Nilsson), their full collection of music videos, and an animated short called “When I Found The Knife.” Silent Shout is the third album by Stockholm, Sweden’s sibling duo Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson. Tracklisting for the deluxe edition is as...  read more

4 to Watch: The Knife

The Knife prove there's more to Swedish pop thatn ABBA and Roxette  read more