Album Rating: 4.5

Seven is one of my favorite songs ever



I might like it more than any Knife song somehow :o

"I've only heard that album twice and I can't remember any of it. Should probably revisit it "

it, and its live counterpart, are just as good as any the knife album tbqh

Album Rating: 4.5

Raging lung and stay out here are some of the best songs ever written. Right up there with colouring of pigeons and tomorrow in a year for my favorite knife songs

Album Rating: 4.5

Don't leave me now

Don't fall asleep

Album Rating: 5.0

Fracking Fluid Injection is so abrasive and yet blissful, interesting stuff.



I sleepily listened to this album a few nights ago. Still a 5, still boundary pushing, still one of the greatest happenings in modern music.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah this rules. Fluid injection is the only song I straight up don't like

"Raging lung and stay out here are some of the best songs ever written. Right up there with colouring of pigeons and tomorrow in a year for my favorite knife songs
"

yaaas

Album Rating: 5.0

this album on some hard psychedelics is a crazy journey into the occult

Album Rating: 4.5

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

Lose a wall, love me

the hiatus is over

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

or whatever all the new 'knives' mean

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Live STH album/DVD, fellas

Album Rating: 5.0

omg...

Album Rating: 5.0

Full of Fire is amazing. Haven't gotten around to jamming the entire thing yet but the first half some very significant high points.

Album Rating: 5.0

Is there a point to old dreams?

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Ambience, playing around with sounds in a boiler room.

And I sorta like it as a gesture - just putting a whole bunch of hollow ambience in the middle of an otherwise busy album.



Other than that the thematic reasoning, with the title and all, is pretty thin.

@demon

"There are so many old ideas that are not realized yet: classless society, real democracy, all peoples' right to move and be in the world with the same circumstances, I could go on," says Olof Dreijer. And while the emptiness of "Old Dreams" doesn't exactly suggest a happy ending for these suspended visions, its existence shows that the Knife are unafraid when it comes to obliterating their own musical habits. Because Shaking the Habitual-- out April 9 via Rabid/Brille/Mute-- also dismantles what people expect from a Knife album: six of the double album's 13 tracks clock in at more than eight minutes, as Olof and his sister Karin Dreijer Andersson go from industrial-tinged techno, to doom-laden balladry, to unnerving tribal sing-alongs. "It’s nice to play with people’s time these days," says Karin during a recent conference call, talking about "Old Dreams"' extended running time. Both Karin, 37, and Olof, 31, are calm and careful on the phone, deliberate in their quest to, as Olof puts it, "not be misunderstood."

To that end, the album is also the pair's most explicitly political statement to date as it comments on monarchy, patriarchy, separatism, racism, environmentalism, feminism, socialism, and several other -isms. "Three years ago, when we started to talk about whether we were going to work together again, we wanted to find a way to combine our political interests with making music," says Karin. So they buried themselves in progressive gender studies and political theory books, and then tried to mirror those texts' structure-busting concepts with similarly innovative sounds. Many of the album's tracks came out of live, improvisational sessions between Karin and Olof, a new strategy for the duo, who were used to programming and constructing their songs via computer. For "Old Dreams", for example, they set up a PA and mics in a "big boiler room" and recorded hours of feedback before editing it down. The jam-based approach lends the album a distinct human-ness as the unorthodox, otherworldly instrumentation teases-out the imagination. "We are driven by curiosity," says Olof.

They very briefly touch on it here and there and what Ive gathered is that the point of it is to test your patience and make you uncomfortable and impatient as that sensation is representative of their pain and frustration at the retardation of the realization and manifestation of these marvellous political idealizations.






Big L represent.

Album Rating: 5.0

Sorry man, I appreciate the effort in trying to explain this (although I’m honestly hoping this is all just a copy/paste job) but that means very little to me. It’s cool that artists express themselves in this way even if the end result isn’t enjoyable but it won’t change how it sounds (to me at least).

Not sure whats to be sorry for you just asked why old dreams is the way it is.