the kniφe - shaking the habitual

Endearingly wonky IMO.

There's lots of moments here that insistently and incessantly whisper '1989' to me for as yet unfathomed reasons.

"full of fire" is really growing on me - not sure if its hooks are digging in to me with time or whether, now i have the whole album, it doesn't have the weight of being wholly representative. a lot of the hooks here are in the rhythms and arrangements rather than the vocal line. also, i love how angry it is. echoes of digital hardcore

"wrap your arms around me" is the album's towering monolithic emotional peak though

LET'S TALK ABOUT GENDER BABY LET'S TALK ABOUT U & ME in the last 30 seconds is some "fancy"-level switch-up

Yeah Full of Fire sounds fantastic at high volume. In general where this album sags it's where it's not weird ENOUGH, or when they're attempting to be weird and uncompromising in fairly well-trodden ways.

Wrap Your Arms Around Me is fantastic as well.

Agreed with the above, it sounds amazing in the context of the album.

Love the brief house vamp style vocal near the beginning of "Stay Out Here", it's like Nightmares on Wax's "Aftermath".

friend of mine says the first 45 min of this are "unlistenable", t/f

omg yes xp

bits of this remind me a lot of their erstwhile collaborator & onetime imitator planningtorock, too

"Heartbeats" is overrated
― relentless technosexuality (DJP)

Please tell me you've never heard the live version.

i'm gonna buy the vinyl today and even though it comes with a cd, i don't have any cd drives at all so i'll probably have to pirate it in the end to actually listen to it on the computer (lol)

unless the vinyl comes with a free download code...............

what do you think of it - thought you didn't like it?

oh i loved the first single, i've been torturing myself in not letting myself listen to streams/youtubes until it was properly released

oh! i misinterpreted your sadface upthread then

i pretty much unreservedly love this now, i don't find it that difficult or unlistenable, apart from the two tracks which are obviously meant to be difficult and unlistenable and which can be easily ignored (and obv like once a year i'll have the time & patience to listen to the 19-min drone and i'm not going to mind)

ah, my D: was at caek's description than at the music

fresh in my inbox: http://theknife.net/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Shaking+The+Habitual+out+now

er https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F37Yg17-JQ

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/the-knife-shaking-the-habitual

this is fucking bizarre

"an album so good, it transcends criticism, but is also a large failure because of such"

is what i'm gleaming from this buffoonery

Seems like a stunt to get hits to the webpage.

that video interview reminds me of an snl skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQ6olQjebg

although it looks like they would be good at making some video collage/spoken word thingys.

i think "a cherry on top" just broke my brain

those hollow ringing sounds at the beginning of full of fire are very martin hannett, she's lost control type harrowing sounds

i'm so glad i decided not to burn myself out on the singles before picking this up - this is awesome, i am in awe. oh my god

This is excellent mopping-the-floor music. I'm using this stuff.

all of the tracks aren't on spotify

not good

Was just noticing the same. Are the missing tracks essential or are they all abstract drones?

hahaha i have no idea, but i'd like to hear the whole album.

i just got this on single CD, without that 19 minute song. have not heard a note of this as of yet, so excited about hearing this for the first time.

i just got this on single CD, without that 19 minute song. have not heard a note of this as of yet, so excited about hearing this for the first time.

― Bee OK

What's the packaging like for the single disc version? I have only seen the double disc version in the shops so far and it looks really nice. It's a cardboard sleeve that folds out into some extra artwork or something. I was thinking of getting the single disc but I'm easily seduced by fancy packaging.

get the 3xLP it comes w/ the cds

i ordered it online, so i will tell you in a few days. Amoeba is about an hour away. i think it's just a standard jewel case type of thing. i didn't want two CD's with one song i will only play once in awhile.

xpost

i should buy the LP's as i have quite a few of those. the problem is the newer stuff is all on CD's (or mp3's) and most of the stuff i have on vinyl is older.

Okay thanks. Yeah I think the double disc idea is great for this album. I don't hate the nineteen minute track as much as I thought I would but it spoils the flow of the album and I know I will want to skip it most times I play it. I think i'd go with the flashy artwork though as they are around the same price.

get the 3xLP it comes w/ the cds

― 乒乓

Yeah I did consider this especially as I like the artwork for the vinyl a little more. It's just a little too expensive for me at the moment.

i really like it when they step on the gas and go full crazy. 'networking'!!!

the best song about linkedin ever written

well, since i can't listen to all of this i guess i'll go listen to silent shout

i don't know if it's stepping on the pedal so much as letting the sail out

"Stay out here" has a sick sy/NIN electro vibe. Propellant track. hi hat's dope. But it has those wack-ass rusted root vocals.

Tiny Mix Tapes review is harder to get through than the 19-minute ambient drone

"Absorbing the girth of this behemoth in one fell swoop is rigorous and harrowing"

Awkward? Maybe not

I don't mind the 19-minute drone at all! Although I do agree that it breaks the flow of the album...

i really like it when they step on the gas and go full crazy. 'networking'!!!

― 乒乓, Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:02 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of my highlights of the album, that.

My Favourite is Ranging Lung, it's sexual as the knife gets

The first half of Networking is as described above, but it loses steam and I just kind of wait for it to end.