[Electropop] The Knife – Tomorrow In A Year

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With their latest album, The Knife have moved away from their synth-tastic dance songs into the experimental realm. Their new album unquestionably deserves acclaim, but the likelihood of their popularity carrying over is, to put it mildly, low. Tomorrow In A Year is an opera about the natural elements set against unnatural music. Based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the album covers the development of life on Earth: from single cells, to the jungles, to higher intelligence. Mostly eschewing the traditional three-minute song format, the two-disc album instead relies heavily on long stretches of electronic instrumentation to build tension, and the dark, mezzo soprano voice of Kristina Wahlin to narrate. Read full review at inyourspeakers.com

knife2 [Electropop] The Knife Tomorrow In A YearThe Knife – The Height of Summer

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The Knife – The Colouring of Pigeons – (Previously covered here)

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Bonus: Check out one of my favorite Ratatat Remixes involving The Knife’s ‘Heartbeats’, the first single from their 2003 album Deep Cuts

Ratatat – We Share Our Mother’s Health (remix of The Knife)

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The Knife – Heartbeats

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  • http://soundcloud.com/djtanner Eric

    Hey, I just made this track last week, I mashewd up “Heartbeats” with “What You Know” by T.I.

    http://soundcloud.com/djtanner/what-you-know-about-heartbeats

  • http://soundcloud.com/djtanner Eric

    Hey, I just made this track last week, I mashewd up “Heartbeats” with “What You Know” by T.I.

    http://soundcloud.com/djtanner/what-you-know-about-heartbeats

  • bg

    http://www.mediafire.com/?dkozzkyywgv

    this is Heartbeats in one speaker and Height of Summer in the other, both put to the same tempo. They are the exact same song with slightly different beats, pfft.

  • bg

    http://www.mediafire.com/?dkozzkyywgv

    this is Heartbeats in one speaker and Height of Summer in the other, both put to the same tempo. They are the exact same song with slightly different beats, pfft.

  • Vill

    Alright!

    A new album by The Knife! So did they breakup and now they’re back together?

  • Vill

    Alright!

    A new album by The Knife! So did they breakup and now they’re back together?

  • http://batteryinyourleg.com/blog sean

    @ Vill

    It’s not really an album by The Knife, but a collaborative opera featuring them as well as Matt Sims and Planningtorock. They never broke up, Karen just decided to do the Fever Ray thing on her own.

  • http://batteryinyourleg.com/blog sean

    @ Vill

    It’s not really an album by The Knife, but a collaborative opera featuring them as well as Matt Sims and Planningtorock. They never broke up, Karen just decided to do the Fever Ray thing on her own.