The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

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  On 4/4/2013 at 4:03 AM, sidewinder said:

 

  On 4/4/2013 at 3:29 AM, Hoodie said:

too much ambient wankery on this album

 

Second listen now, if you take out the excessive ambient wankery, what remains is pretty amazing.

 

There are a few interesting moments in the 19+ minute "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized", but it could just as well be nixed if it were up to me, for a tighter experience.

I won't argue with this. Not bothered by the ambient wankery. For me it's a couple a breathers between the corkers innit.

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Actually if you've only heard Heartbeats and Pass This On, it will be much difficult for you to understand this album. I've listened all the Knife discography and I still have difficulties. It's like Exai, you have to find those birlliant moments and let yourself evade with the music.

I approve of this.

  On 4/4/2013 at 2:28 PM, Rulohead32 said:

Actually if you've only heard Heartbeats and Pass This On, it will be much difficult for you to understand this album. I've listened all the Knife discography and I still have difficulties. It's like Exai, you have to find those birlliant moments and let yourself evade with the music.

It's more difficult for you to understand what someone else can and cannot understand, though.

Actually I wasn't talking to you as "someone in concrete", but generally.

A HANDFUL OF ELF PEE

it grew on me now i think its one of the best ever.

freakgin awesome

freakgin awesom

  On 4/5/2013 at 1:38 AM, Fred McGriff said:

freakgin awesom

totz

The triple LP is delayed! ZOMG.

Going to pick up the double CD instead as this is out now. I have Silent Shout and Fever Ray on CD and will eventually pick up the first two on CD anyway so it keeps the collection consistent at least. Plus, it's about half the price of the vinyl.

Can't wait to hear this later. Early reports are good.

  On 4/5/2013 at 10:24 AM, KGW said:

The triple LP is delayed! ZOMG.

Until when??

Listening to this again.... and I totally understand why some are complaining about the ambient tracks, but I really think they have a place on this album. I had a similar initial feeling with drukqs, too much boosh in between the ohshiizzz. But tracks like Tooth for an Eye, Full of Fire, Raging Lung, are so enormously strong, like some of the best songs I've heard in decades, it'm just feeling the unhurried flow of this album a lot. I'm taking a deep breath and letting this album englulf me and slowly swallow me into its butt and digest me like a suppository.

Yes, the ambient tracks definitely have a place, but I think they're a bit massive and wrong placed.

On my 3rd listen of the album now, I've got a whole new appreciation for "Full of Fire". They are just fucking killing it on this album.

my reaction to this album:

http://replygif.net/i/472

So I picked this up Friday but haven't had chance to listen to it yet. Getting stuck in later. Heard the first few tracks Friday night and it is intense.

The triple LP is out next week (or Friday), I think.

Not one word about the lyrics/topics?

i think a tooth for an eye is about immigration.

It's just weird to have a 10 minute praise of an album that you think has great artistic merits, and then not mention that at all.

oh, i thought you meant this thread. lol

  On 4/5/2013 at 6:14 PM, Fred McGriff said:

I had a similar initial feeling with drukqs, too much boosh in between the ohshiizzz.

The difference being that drukqs was released as a "mp3 album" from which you just pick the tracks you feel like listening to at the moment, while Shaking the Habitual is supposed to be a more cohesive album meant to be listened to in a single sitting. And, personally, I think a 9 minute ambient piece kills the mood that a beast like Full of Fire sets previously, and I mean it in a negative way.

i thinks it's might have a gender topic or 2.

let's talk about gender baby, let's talk about you and me.

not to mention Full of Fire's video, more like: Full of lesbians