The Knife’s highly anticipated fourth album, and first in
seven years
, Shaking the Habitual, is now streaming in full one week ahead of
its official release date (April 9th via
Mute).
The duo all but ditch the electro pop sound of 2006’s unstoppable
“
Silent Shout” and follow the formula introduced in their 2010
Tomorrow, In A
Year score. The album is filled with
long stretches of melody-free movements heavy on the art and less concerned
with any sort of commercial attributions or humor. Unlike
Tomorrow though
The Knife’s
latest does so with an harsh thunderous bang rather than the quiet and gentle organic
palette used in the avant-garde Danish opera. That being said fans shouldn’t
be too concerned as
Shaking The Habitual is a record that has a little bit of
The Knife of old, a little
Fever Ray and even a splice of
Oni Ayhun but at the
same time is a new exhilarating sound that will equally excite you as their
older material did the first time you heard it. The tracklist spans 13 songs running
90-minutes in length. Check it out
HERE or below...
Shaking the Habitual Tracklist:
01. A Tooth for an Eye (6:04)
02. Full of Fire (9:17)
03. A Cherry on Top (8:43)
04. Without You My Life Would Be Boring (5:14)
05. Wrap Your Arms Around Me (4:36)
06. Crake (0:55)
07. Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized (19:22)
08. Raging Lung (9:58)
09. Networking (6:42)
10. Oryx (0:37)
11. Stay Out Here (10:42)
12. Fracking Fluid Injection (9:54)
13. Ready to Lose (4:36)
