Posts Tagged ‘The Knife’
1/6/10 News briefs: Ellie Goulding, NME, Atlas Sound, The Knife and Gallows
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Emerging UK singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding has revealed details about her widely anticipated debut album. Titled Lights, the solo artist told NME it’s a bedroom project. “I spent the majority of my time recording this album in my producer Starsmith’s bedroom in Bromley,” she explained. “It is made up of songs that all started on a guitar over a period of about two years. A number of the songs vent romantic victories and failures.”
Speaking of Ellie Goulding and NME, the UK hype monger published its picks for the 20 top artists to look out for in 2010. Aside from Ms. Goulding, the New Musical Express tipped the likes of The Drums, Hurts, Egyptian Hip Hop, Delphic and Washed Out.
Bradford Cox is giving away freebies once again. While it’s a bit late, he’s posted a new studio outtake called “Christmas Synths” up on the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound blog, as well as a New Year’s Eve bootleg.
Yesterday we mentioned that new music from The Knife would be coming and well, it’s here! You can now download a song from their upcoming opera, Tomorrow, In A Year. You can download “Colouring of Pigeons” over at their official site.
And did you know that abrasive hardcore lads Gallows were dropped by their label Warner? Well you do now. The Guardian has posted a nice testament to their awesomeness and how they manipulated their label to become the mighty force they now are.
Tags: Atlas Sound, Ellie Goulding, Gallows, NME, The Knife
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1/5/10 News briefs: Love Is All, The Knife, Nada Surf, Pavement and Real Estate + Woods
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Swedish post-punks Love Is All will be releasing their third album this spring. The band recently signed to Polyvinyl (Of Montreal, Japandroids) and will put out Two Thousand and Ten Injuries on March 23rd. The album is being described as “an eclectic collection of pop gems, anchored by New Wave and punk rock rhythms that don’t ever let up.” So more of the same… yes!
According to Sound Cloud, The Knife are set to debut some new songs any day now. The site’s Twitter page reads: “Join us and welcome The Knife to SoundCloud! They’ll post new material in the coming days.” Just a reminder: it’s been four years since they released Silent Shout. Yeah, about time!
Nada Surf will return after three years with a new covers album. If I Had A Hi-Fi contains 12 songs by the likes of Kate Bush, Depeche Mode, The Go-Betweens and Dwight Tilley. The band will also hit the road for a world tour beginning on March 25th.
Hey, Pavement have announced the release of a best-of collection on March 9th. Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement will be a 23-track remastered collection spanning the band’s 10-year career. Those 23 tracks, however, have not been revealed and Matador would like fans to guess them in their Guess The Track Listing Contest. Click here for more details.
Woodsist labelmates Real Estate and Woods will hop in a van together this spring for a North American tour. The 12-date jaunt includes two Canadian dates: Montreal’s Club Lambi on March 13th and Toronto’s Horseshoe Tavern on March 14th.
Tags: Love Is All, Nada Surf, pavement, Real Estate, The Knife, Woods
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Earworm: Fever Ray “RA 178 (Halloween mix)”
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Who: Fever Ray
Sounds like: Shadowy and claustrophobic musings by Karin Dreijer Andersson that gives insight into how she composes the music of Fever Ray and The Knife. Or the most off-putting mixtape you’ll likely ever hear.
RIYL: The Knife’s Silent Shout, horror soundtracks, black metal, ominous Halloween background music, electro, evil, leftfield indie rock, goth, things that lurk in the dark and go bump in the night
Need to know: Karin Dreijer Andersson put together this special Halloween mix for Resident Advisor, the online electronic music community’s Bible. Before Karin founded The Knife with her brother Olof and her solo project Fever Ray, she was in an indie band called Honey Is Cool, who released a couple albums and started the label Rabid, which releases the music of both The Knife and Fever Ray. Karin also sang on the last two albums by Röyksopp.
Track: RA 178 is an offbeat mishmash of songs Karin felt were true to the Halloween spirit – or Resident Advisor felt would make a good Halloween feature. Her choices provide spooky nuances here and there, but overall it works better as a mix suited to her enigmatic persona. Beginning with a cascading instrumental by Neil Young, the mix logically transcends into a brooding downtempo Yo La Tengo cut, and then hangs a sharp left when Journey To Ixtlan impose their funereal black metal dirge. Brothers Jad and David Fair get in the mood with a playful little narrative about Nosferatu, and then it creeps out again with the zombie march by hip goth singer Zola Jesus. Bruce Haack summons Satan with a quirky electro number, Krause get crazy with the rhythms, and Burial Hex sound as if they’re partying with the Cenobites from Hellraiser. Suicide and Amadour & Mariam each lighten things up in their very distinct styles, before Shackleton drops down low for a hearty bit of dubstep. Entombed enter and exit the fold with the most obvious transitions, thanks to their riveting Scando death metal providing an adrenaline rush. However, when it dies in the hands of Maddalena Fagandini’s pitter-pattering pulsations, things begin to wrap up for Burundi’s hushed tribal hymn.
Buy: You don’t need to buy it, you can download it here for free.
Tags: Fever Ray, Halloween, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Resident Advisor, The Knife
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