The Knife 'Shaking The Habitual' Listening Party & Vinyl Giveaway

Erasurehead · Apr 8, 2013

Listen to The Knife's new album 'Shaking The Habitual' on Ology for a chance to win a free vinyl copy: Tuesday April 9 @ 8:00pm EST. Hit up the link below for more details:

http://www.ology.com/post/257729/rsvp-the-knife-shaking-the-habitual-listening-party-vinyl-giveaway

offset · Apr 9, 2013

Hmmmmmm, it just won't get under my skin

eggsprog · Apr 9, 2013

oh man, this is really bad

deleted · Apr 9, 2013

the butter knife dropped on the floor and its full of dog hair.. uke:

Pressed_Rat · Apr 10, 2013

I am not sure what to make of this album just yet. I have been listening to it pretty much non-stop the last few days. It's a pretty big departure from Silent Shout, and the material on here is much less immediate and even impenetrable at times. It is less a synth pop album (in fact, 95% of the album is not even remotely pop), and more of an experimental electronic album with a large bent towards tech house, glitch, and dark ambient, with a lot of long, eerie sound collages in between that sound more like Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Swans than they do the Knife.

I think this is a rather daring album that has the potential to grow on you given time and repeat listens, but is sure to be a let-down to anyone hoping for more of what they heard on their previous albums. One track on here, which I just love, which sort of harks back to the last album and the material heard on the Fever Ray album, is the track titled 'Raging Lung' -- by far my favorite track on Shaking the Habitual so far. Unfortunately, it's unavailable to be listened to on YouTube from within the US.

Even if you don't like this album, you've got to give them credit for staying true to their weirdness and putting out an album that is challenging, different, and true to its title.

Pressed_Rat · Apr 10, 2013

The album gets unanimously good reviews...

Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating Metacritic 85/100[9] Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 4/5[10] Clash 8/10[11] The Guardian 3/5[12] The Independent 4/5[13] NME 7/10[14] Pitchfork Media 8.4/10[15] Rolling Stone 3.5/5[16] Slant Magazine 3.5/5[17] Spin 9/10[18] Uncut 9/10[19]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5PwUsqFfuE"]The Knife - Shaking The Habitual ALBUM REVIEW - YouTube

Pressed_Rat · Apr 10, 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaking_the_Habitual

Shaking the Habitual received general acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 33 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[9] Uncut's Rob Young wrote that Karin Dreijer Andersson "possesses one of the most distinctive Scandinavian voices since Björk", referring to the duo's songs as "genetic pop mutations, scampering out of control".[19] Laura Studarus of Under the Radar opined, "Perhaps more surprising than Shaking the Habitual's strident political stance is how much of its running time is created via non-electronic instruments. The synths still slither across nearly every song, but mixed in is a wealth of less obvious sound sources".[20] Lindsay Zoladz of Pitchfork Media praised Shaking the Habitual as the duo's "most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal".[15] Philip Sherburne of Spin stated that The Knife have "never sounded more in tune with the materiality of sound or the sonorousness of the physical world."[18] Allmusic's Heather Phares noted that "Shaking the Habitual isn't as cohesive or accessible as Silent Shout, and after experiencing the whole thing, fans may not return to it often, but it's hard to deny that it's an often stunning work of art", dubbing the album "a testament to the Knife's skill that they make such formidable sounds so compelling for so long".[10]
The Independent critic Simon Price described the album as "long [...], strange, disturbing, uncomfortable, challenging. But it never fails to fascinate."[13] Louis Pattison of the NME expressed, "Sporadically brilliant, perhaps it is The Knife's Inland Empire—a fearless piece of work with its own logic, one that shears away all safety nets. Invention, stark and undiluted."[14] Anna Wilson of Clash concluded, "Increasingly aggressive and overtly detuned, [Karin and Olof's] individual styles have collided to create something elemental, immense and unsettling. Self-possessed and uncompromising, this is a record with regal bearing."[11] Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan wrote that, compared to Silent Shout, Shaking the Habitual "explores even wilder styles of mordantly nutso android bleat".[16] Eric Henderson of Slant Magazine viewed that most of the album "consign anything remotely hooky into the realm of affectation", and the lyrics are "delivered by some of Karin's most obtuse vocal performances to date, her sinewy androgynous pipes muscling through slide-whistle octaves fearlessly and tunelessly."[17] Hayden Woolley of Drowned in Sound found the album "unnavigable and unknowable, almost impossible to write about and even harder to listen to."[21] The Guardian's Alexis Petridis felt that "Shaking the Habitual's problem is that the Knife seem to have dismissed the idea of making your point concisely as merely another affectation of a decadent and corrupt society", describing the album as "alternately utterly gripping and unbearably boring; incredibly bold and strangely flaccid, viscerally thrilling and hopelessly over-thought."[12]

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radioethiopia · Apr 18, 2013

Well...I like it better than the other one.

Surprised to see pitchfork agreeing with me yet again this year!! pitch and I haven't been jerking each other off like this since Amon Tobin's heyday!

radioethiopia · Apr 18, 2013

Also, is "hopelessly overthought" supposed to be insulting? I would love to hear that criticism!

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