Artist: Fever Ray

No one buys albums anymore, goes the music industry truism. And yet, for all that the format's commercial viability may or may not be on the wane, sitting and listening to a great album from start to finish is one of the greatest pleasures that music can bring. Flavorwire recently got to thinking about how one might build a record collection if you really only did buy one record a year.  So here's the result of our thought exercise: 50 albums you really should own, one a year from 1963 until the present day. Yes, of course this mean things [...]

My granddad died at 4am this morning – the kind of time for which Silent Shout was first fabricated. I suppose it's the very essence of passing away amid the silence the quite literal dead of night brings with it, although these past few years had been something of an ordeal for him. I'd suggest an ordeal similar in tenor to The Knife's latest full-length, the unrelentingly challenging and as yet unrewarding Shaking The Habitual , were it not to trivialise his in many ways tragic demise. He forgot who I [...]

The Knife's Shaking the Habitual BY JORDAN MAINZER Don't call it a flashback. I've never thought of The Knife's much-loved 2006 album  Silent Shout as a "you had to be there" moment in time. Or even a great record. Instead, to me,  Silent Shout was an influential record: one of those "not many heard it, but everyone who did started a band" records. I know, I know. Blasphemous. Because I was never a great fan of the sister-brother duo beyond a few songs here and there, [...]

Since Swedish electro-pop duo THE KNIFE is already extending the definition of an album and music in general on their disussable new record Shaking The Habitual, it seems logical that there videos do the same. After A Tooth For An Eye and Full Of Fire already were quite bizarre and interesting to watch, the new The post The Knife unveil "A Cherry On Top" video appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

Leave it to Knife/Fever Ray vocalist Karin Dreijer Andersson to find the dark side in a cool, almost marimba-like electronic groove. Or to look at it in reverse, I guess this is a pop song in her world. Music for walking in circles and waiting for what comes next. Fever Ray - Triangle Walks

• Fever Ray - Triangle Walks

The new Vikings show, so far, has been really good. I doubt the historic accuracy of anything in it but, from a dramatic standpoint, it has some good writing and acting. The thing that surprised me the most about the show is the use of Fever Ray's "If I Had A Heart" in the opener.

I launched Seen Your Video just over a year ago and to commemorate our anniversary, I've made a long-overdue list of the Best Music Videos of 2000s . While researching the 2K decade in music videos, I found it largely to be a story of two halves. The first half was dominated by groundbreaking visionaries like Michel Gondry , Spike Jonze , Mark Romanek and Floria Sigismondi , many of whom, after leaving their mark on music videos have gone on to successful careers in feature films. The other defining characteristic of the early [...]

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Fever Ray, Mausi, Imagine Dragons Song: NONONO - Pumpin Blood [download here ] What's so good? This latest track, [...]

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Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Fever Ray, Jamie xx, Björk, Honey is Cool Song: The Knife - A Tooth For An Eye (Pursuit Grooves Remix) [download here ] [...]

• Brille Records - The Knife 'A Tooth For An Eye' (Pursuit Grooves remix)

This week will doubtless be forever remembered as that upon which The Knife returned with some explicitly outré newfangled habits, though south of their native Sweden an altogether more auspicious prospect this way comes. Anna Müller may not yet carry that same inscrutable aura nor radiant revere about her as does Karin Dreijer Andersson, though her eponymous début under the nom de plume of HVOB (or Her Voice Over Boys) may yet see her elevated high up above both her Nordic overstudy, and so too many of the umpteen boys peddling distinctly below par electronica at [...]

It's been seven years since The Knife last emerged with an album of which to moan and groan, and Silent Shout was then of course met with much wax lyrical. This week, they return with its lamentably belated follow-up in the altogether less effable form of Shaking The Habitual which resides deep within the grooves of an altogether more tangible wax (or rather black vinyl plastic) – Deep Cuts again made by Karin Dreijer Andersson and brother Olof Dreijer's Rabid Records imprint. Though to contextualise the timeframe across which they've now been [...]

When Swedish electronica duo THE KNIFE announced its comeback earlier this year the buzz and aticipation this announcement created was pretty overhelming. Probably only DAVID BOWIE's comeback album played in the same hype league. The question is what you expect from their first studioalbum in seven years (leaving their inconvenient 2010 opera project Tomorrow In The post The Knife - Shaking The Habitual appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

When Swedish electronica duo THE KNIFE announced its comeback earlier this year the buzz and aticipation this announcement created was pretty overhelming. Probably only DAVID BOWIE's comeback album played in the same hype league. The question is what you expect from their first studioalbum in seven years (leaving their inconvenient 2010 opera project Tomorrow In The post The Knife - Shaking The Habitual appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: The Knife, Grimes, Crystal Castles, Fever Ray Song: Metal Mother - Prism [download here ] What's so good? Mmmmm... [...]

• Metal Mother - Prism

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Lykke Li, Dragonette, Fever Ray, Marina & The Diamonds Song: Little Boots - Broken Record [download here ] What's so good? [...]

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• LittleBoots - Broken Record

It would be all too easy to turn a deaf ear to the work of electronically affected boy/ girl pairings now that The Knife have at long last deigned to return and subsequently; inevitably delight, though to neglect the steely sterility of a similarly newly rereleased  Gold Zebra would represent a drastic case of yanking out a tooth to spite one's eye. For Invisible Disorder from Montréal duo Julie and Jean-Phillipe (she sings; he manhandles the synths) is a gelid eight-minute, electronica-infected stalk down darkened 'late-night heartbreaking disco noir' idiosyncrasies lightened only by the lingering influence of Peaking Lights, [...]

• GOLD ZEBRA - INVISIBLE DISORDER

As we noted last week , we were both intrigued and disconcerted by the arrival of the new Beach House video for "Wishes," which features the ever-terrifying Ray "Leland Palmer" Wise lip-synching to the song as he directs some sort of weird gymanstic-centric cult meeting in a sports stadium. It's the latest in a series of pretty awesome videos from Beach House, and it got us thinking about other bands who've really embraced the medium as an art form, making consistently great videos over the years. Here are some of our favorites! [...]

Swedish electro-pop duo THE KNIFE is back with the second music video from his upcoming new album Shaking The Habitual. This time it's for the song A Tooth For An Eye. And while the first song for the record - Full Of Fire - was quite long and bizarre, this one almost got a certain The post The Knife premiere "A Tooth For An Eye" music video appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

If 2012 was widely regarded as the year of Death Grips , then 2013 already looks set to belong to Scandinavia's omnipotent sibling duo  The Knife  who, having already stoked the flames of intrigue with Full of Fire  last month, here return with a second glimmer of their fourthcoming full-length,  Shaking The Habitual . Close as I've since kept the former to my heart, it's A Tooth For An Eye which will surely have all attentions firmly locked back in on Karin and Olof Dreijer as they do away with the unabating agitation of its sprawling, lost-marble nine-minute [...]

The greatest brother sister duo of all time and Sweden's finest music experiment, The Knife , are set to release their long awaited fourth LP, Shaking The Habitual which will be released April 8, 2013 in the UK/EU and April 9, 2013 in the U.S. by Brille Records . Oni Ayhun and Fever Ray reunite in, 'Full of Fire', w/ full force. Ayhun's acid-washed analog techno transcends Ray's dark poppy vocals into a 9 min eerie dance grinder. Watch their incredibly spine-chilling and somewhat deeply disturbing short film created by [...]