The Knife

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The Knife
The Knife on the Melt! Festival (2013)
The Knife on the Melt! Festival (2013)
General information
Genre (s) Electro , techno , indietronic , tech house , avant-garde , synth pop
founding 1999
resolution 2014
Website theknife.net
Founding members
Karin Dreijer (* 1975)
Olof Dreijer (* 1981)

The Knife was a musical duo from Gothenburg , Sweden , consisting of the two siblings Karin Dreijer and Olof Dreijer , who also run their own record company (Rabid Records) . Their music can be described as a mixture of electro , techno and avant-garde . They became known in Germany mainly through the club hit Pass This On .

history

One quality that set The Knife apart from many other bands was their unwillingness to collaborate with the media and the mainstream music scene. The group rarely showed up in public, with most of their promotional photos showing the members wearing masks. For a long time they did not give live concerts.

The Knife won the Swedish Grammis Music Award - a Swedish counterpart to the Grammy Awards - as the best pop group of 2003, but they boycotted the award by sending two representatives of the Guerrilla Girls dressed as gorillas with the number 50 on their costumes to the event . This was intended as a protest against male dominance within the music industry. Her album Deep Cuts was also nominated for a Grammis for best record of 2003, but the award went to the Cardigans .

José González covered the song Heartbeats by The Knife in his 2003 album Veneer . This cover song was used in Sony's color-like-no-other commercials in late 2005 , which helped The Knife gain greater publicity. In January 2007 the band won six Grammis .

The single You Take My Breath Away was created in collaboration with the Swedish singer Jenny Wilson and is based on the classic Take My Breath Away by the band Berlin from 1986.

In 2014 the band was awarded the Nordic Music Prize for the album Shaking the Habitual .

On August 22nd, 2014, The Knife announced their breakup after the Shaken-Up tour through Europe in an interview.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Deep cuts
  SE 11 01/23/2003 (32 weeks)
Hannah med H soundtrack
  SE 51 12/05/2003 (1 week)
Silent shout
  SE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 02/23/2006 (24 weeks)
Tomorrow, in a Year (with Mt. Sims & Planning to Rock)
  SE 24 03/05/2010 (2 weeks)
Shaking the Habitual
  DE 67 04/19/2013 (2 weeks)
  AT 70 04/19/2013 (1 week)
  CH 77 04/21/2013 (1 week)
  UK 31 04/20/2013 (2 weeks)
  US 52 04/27/2013 (2 weeks)
  SE 8th 04/12/2013 (10 weeks)
Singles
Heartbeats
  SE 54 01/02/2003 (2 weeks)
You Take My Breath Away
  UK 90 03/12/2005 (1 week)
We Share Our Mothers' Health
  UK 85 08/05/2006 (1 week)
Like a pen
  UK 96 10/28/2006 (1 week)

Albums

  • The Knife (2001)
  • Deep Cuts (2003)
  • Hannah med H Soundtrack (2003)
  • Silent Shout (2006)
  • Tomorrow, in a Year (2010)
  • Shaking the Habitual (2013)
  • Shaken-Up Versions (2014)
  • Live at Terminal 5 (2017)

Singles

  • Afraid of You (2000)
  • NY Hotel (2001)
  • Got 2 Let U (2002)
  • Nedsvärtning (2002)
  • Heartbeats (2002)
  • You Take My Breath Away (2003)
  • Pass This On (2003)
  • Handy-Man (2003)
  • Silent Shout (2006)
  • Marble House (2006)
  • We Share Our Mothers' Health (2006)
  • Like a Pen (2006)

Collaborations and projects

  • Karin Dreijer was the lead singer of the band Honey Is Cool .
  • Karin Dreijer is a guest singer in the song What Else Is There? von Röyksopp (2005).
  • The Knife produced Who's That Girl? ( Robyn ) (2005)
  • Olof Dreijer contributed a remix of Me, I'm Not for the album Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D by Nine Inch Nails (2007).
  • Karin Dreijer is a guest singer on Vantage Point ( dEUS ) (2008).
  • Karin Dreijer released the debut album of her solo project Fever Ray on February 20, 2009 , from which If I Had A Heart was released as the first single.
  • Karin Dreijer is guest singer on the tracks This Must Be It and Tricky Tricky on Röyksopp's album JUNIOR (2009).

Web links

Commons : The Knife  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ by: Larm 2014: The Knife win Nordic Music Prize 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Gideon Gottfried, Musikmarkt, March 3, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.musikmarkt.de  
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Chart sources: Sweden - Germany
  4. ↑ Royksopp - What Else is There?
  5. ↑ Me, I'm Not
  6. ↑ Fever Ray ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / feverray.com
  7. ↑ Junior