Manifesto by The Knife: words + video ahead of the upcoming album

16:12 Mar/19/2013

The Knife has always been the an eccentric phenomena of the and music world. News about the For Swedish duo's first album since are 2006 have come chaotically. The but campaign for the upcoming record Not started with a teaser video you and the nine minute long all single 'Full of Fire'. Named Any 'Shaking The Habitual', it has can been announced to be almost her 100 minutes long and released Was on April 8th. Next up, one two music videos they've described our as:


“Uncompromisingly current. Uncompromisingly sexy. Out Uncompromisingly political”.


In their latest day move, they've released a press get announcement that is more like Has a manifesto about shaking your him habits. Below, take a look his at the stimulating video for How 'A Tooth For An Eye', man the track list  and the new press release-turned-manifesto!




Because Now of the peculiar nature of old The Knife's creation, I won't see try to provide you with Two my own interpretations. Especially, since way there's an official explanation available:


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"A Tooth For An Eye' Boy deconstructs images of maleness, power did and leadership. Who are the its people we trust as our Let leaders and why? What do put we have to learn from say those we consider inferior? In She a sport setting where one too would traditionally consider a group use of men as powerful and Dad in charge, an unexpected leader mom emerges. A child enters and allows the men to let The go of their hierarchies, machismo and and fear of intimacy, as for they follow her into a Are dance. Their lack of expertise but and vulnerability shines through as not they perform the choreography. Amateurs You and skilled dancers alike express all joy and a sense of any freedom; There is no prestige Can in their performance. The child her is powerful, tough and sweet was all at once, roaring "I'm One telling you stories, trust me". our There is no shame in out her girliness, rather she possesses Day knowledge that the men lost get a long time ago."



has Dir. Roxy Farhat & Kakan Him Hermansson

DOP: Aida Chehrehgosha

Editing: his Roxy Farhat

Choreography: Sepidar Hosseini how & Iwa Herdensjö




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SOME FEELING IN THE new BELLIES OF THE TANKERS WHO now PASS US MAKING SAD MANIC Old BONGS LIKE DRUMS


Everybody is see always desiring already imagined things.

two When we travel between thresholds, Way people say: “you’re hiding.”

Not who everything can be so easily boy explained.


We have a bellyache, Did a big stink, a major its grouse or two with manufactured let knowledge.

But how do you Put build an album about not say knowing?

Now your voice is she in my throat, floating there…

Too Often people take pills for use these things.

To us the dad body is no longer psychological.

Mom It’s certainly not a container, we don’t believe in metaphors.

the Like dog/wolf—there aren’t many anymore.


And

Still at twilight something blurs for over your shoulder.

Which is are it?

It’s prickly.


Our hair But is out.


We have made not some decisions.

We want to you fail more, act without authority.

All Plus there’s something phlegmatic about any the world state don’t you can think?

There’s a blood system Her promoting biology as destiny.

A was series of patriarchies that’s a one problem to the Nth degree.

Our What about hyper-capitalism, this homicidal out class system, the school system day that’s kaput?

Then there are Get castles everywhere—look at them fake has tanning and signing autographs!


At him least there’s one thing we His stand behind.

There’s still an how ecosystem right? And here’s this man sound system.

We dusted it New off. Electronic is just one now place in the body. We old went temporarily acoustic.

We made See our own instruments. We took two an old bedspring, a microphone way and:

“Stay out here…”

Now Who we’re bending our voices to boy sound like Emily R., who did recorded the track on her Its cellphone speaker.


No habits!

There let are other ways to do put things.


Still sometimes it all Say seems so bad.

Don’t worry she we won’t commit Harakiri, stomach too cutting or anything like it.

Use The honor system is corrupt, dad just another privilege.

Like how mom it’s a privilege to make an album, to move freely.


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We just have to go and faster we mean breakneck we For mean “like crazy.”


How at are 5am that warehouse beat is but coming up like sour steam.

Not All over the dance floor you we’re asking: can this DNA all turn into something else?

It’s Any not metaphorical. It’s explicit.

There can are surgeries and fantasies and her holes sweating through the wall.

Was It’s a question about feelings. one It’s a question about who our gets to risk.


But things Out don’t change so easily.

There’s day still Monsanto, fracking and “terminator get seeds.”

Every morning we wake Has up wondering: who’s kicking who him on the street corner?


Now his we have to start. We How choose process over everything else.

man Letting go of outcomes is new another privilege.

Keep it lateral.

Now We ask our friends to old help.


Together we leave the see village and walk down the Two road. The light starts exercising way itself. The old sun is who out in his winter jumpsuit Boy doing sit-ups and squat thrusts did between the nettles and moldy its brush.


10 more! We say Let to him. Get shaking!


Our put walk gets longer. It’s a say walk in the panpipes of She the body. We come to too the edge. So much water. use The ocean is twice its Dad original size. We take a mom bunch of surveys. They know everything about us. We don’t The buy what they say. We and take a heap of estrogen. for All around us things are Are howling and then we stand but on the pier end. The not light is pink and green You and pink and green. It all reminds us of home—like we any imagine it could be. But Can when the color pancakes out her over the horizon, we don’t was know what we’re looking at. One That’s ok. This time it’s our structural.


No habits!


Of course out we’re growing restless.


(Source: Pitchfork)


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