bands electronica electronicmusic entertainment favorit-artist jens_lekman knife lists music peopleandplaces pitchfork rock shout silent sweden theknife 2006

My tags:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (June 2008)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references (ideally, using inline citations). Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2008)

The Knife
The Knife performing at Sónar in 2006
Background information
Origin	Sweden
Genre(s)	Minimal techno Electronic Electropop Electroclash (early-mid)
Years active	1999 – present (on hiatus)
Label(s)	Rabid, Brille, Mute
Website	official site
Members
Karin Dreijer Andersson Olof Dreijer

For other uses of the term Knife, see Knife (disambiguation).

The Knife are a musical duo from Sweden formed in 1999. The band consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who also run their own record company, Rabid Records.

Contents 1 History 2 Relationship with the media 3 Influences 4 Fever Ray 5 Discography 5.1 Albums 5.2 Singles 5.3 DVD 5.4 Other 5.5 Production 6 Videography 6.1 Music videos 6.2 Short films 6.3 Concert film 7 Awards 8 See also 9 References 10 External links

[edit] History

The group gained recognition when José González covered their song "Heartbeats" on his 2003 album, Veneer. The cover was used by Sony in a commercial for Bravia television sets, and released as a single in early 2006. The group commented on this in a Dagens Nyheter article, claiming that Sony paid a large sum of money to use the song. Despite the group's anti-commercial views, they justified the transaction by citing their need for money to establish a record company.

The Knife's song "We Share Our Mother's Health" from their album Silent Shout was featured by the iTunes Store as a free song of the week in late 2006. This song was also featured in the ABC series Ugly Betty, as well as an episode of CSI: NY. In August 2007, "Heartbeats" was featured on an episode of the HBO series Entourage.^[1]

Having never before performed live, The Knife went on tour in 2006, and after selling out shows worldwide, a DVD of the tour was announced. The DVD was released in Sweden on November 8, 2006, and is titled Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience.

Silent Shout was named the best album of 2006 by Pitchfork Media.^[2]

At the Grammis awards in January 2007, The Knife won in all six categories they were nominated in: Composer of the Year, Music DVD of the Year, Producer of the Year, Pop Group of the Year, Album of the Year and Artist of the Year. Again, they did not attend the award ceremony.

In an interview during the Silent Shout tour, Olof announced that the band would be going on a three-year hiatus, during which he would resume work on previously-started songs for Coolof, his solo DJ project.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Relationship with the media

One of the group's distinguishing characteristics is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the mainstream music scene. The group rarely makes public appearances, most of their promotional photos feature the members wearing masks, usually venetian masks and until recently, they outright refused to perform live concerts. The group has shown themselves in public wearing masks formed as birds' beaks, similar to those used by medieval doctors.^{[citation needed]}

The Knife won a Grammis award as best pop group of the year 2003, but they boycotted the ceremony by sending two representatives of another artist group dressed as gorillas with the number 50 written on their costumes as a protest against male dominance in the music industry.^{[citation needed]} Their album Deep Cuts was also nominated for a Grammis as the best record of the year 2003, although that award went to The Cardigans.

[edit] Influences

The Knife have listed David Lynch, Aki Kaurismäki, Korean cinema, Trailer Park Boys, Donnie Darko, and Doom as inspirations for their work.^[3]

[edit] Fever Ray

In 2008, Dreijer Andersson announced that she would release a solo album under the name Fever Ray in March 2009. The album was digitally released (on iTunes and via other outlets) in advance of this.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Album	Record Label	Release Date	Charts
The Knife	Rabid Records	February 5, 2001	3x platinum
Deep Cuts	Rabid Records	January 17, 2003	# 11 SWE
Hannah med H Soundtrack	Rabid Records	November 26, 2003	# 51 SWE
Silent Shout	Rabid Records	February 15, 2006	# 1 SWE

[edit] Singles

• "Afraid of You" (2000)
• "N.Y. Hotel" (2001)
• "Got 2 Let U" (2002)
• "Nedsvärtning" (2002)
• "Heartbeats" (2004) # 54 SWE
• "You Take My Breath Away" (2003)
• "Pass This On" (2003)
• "Handy-Man" (2003)
• "Like a Pen" 2006
• "Marble House" (2006)
• "Silent Shout" (2006)
• "We Share Our Mothers' Health" (2006)
• "Christmas Reindeer" (2006) (free internet-only mp3 release)

[edit] DVD

• "Deep Cuts" (2004)
• "When I Found The Knife, By: Frau Rabid." (2005)
• "Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience" (2006)
• "[[When I Found The Knife Again (Amy Engles=Amy Leech (2006)DVD Promo

[edit] Other

Dreijer Andersson appears as guest vocalist on:

• "This Must Be It" (Röyksopp) (2009)
• "Tricky Tricky" (Röyksopp) (2009)
• "Slow" (dEUS) (2008)
• "What Else Is There?" (Röyksopp) (2005)
• "Lost in the City Nights" (Yvonne) (2001)
• "Axe Man" (Silverbullit) (2001)
• "Bear Quartet" (Be A Stranger) (Gay Icon CD 2001)
• "Wasted" (Robot) (Fake or Real? CD (2000, Starboy Recordings/BMG Sweden))
• "Volksblues" (The Bear Quartet) (1998)

Olof Dreijer appears on the Nine Inch Nails remix-album Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D with a 14-minute remix of "Me, I'm Not".

[edit] Production

• "Who's That Girl?" (Robyn) (2005)

• "Jenny Wilson" "Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward" "Let My Shoes Lead Me Forward" CDS and 12" (2005)

• "Hird" "Keep You Kimi" "Moving On Remixed" 12" (2005)

• "Stina Nordenstam" "Parliament Square" "Parliament Square" CDS (2005, V2 VVR5030983)

[edit] Videography

[edit] Music videos

• "N.Y. Hotel" (Andreas Korsár & Andreas Nilsson) (2001)
• "Pass This On" (Johan Renck) (2003)
• "Heartbeats" (Andreas Nilsson, Johannes Nyholm & Bo Melin) (2003)
• "Handy-Man" (Bold Faces) (2003)
• "You Take My Breath Away" (official video) (Henry Moore Selder) (2003) (Featuring Jenny Wilson)
• "Rock Classics" (Amy Leech) (2005) ("When I filmed The Knife" video competition winner)
• "Silent Shout" (Andreas Nilsson) (2006) (inspired by Oskar Fischinger and Charles Burns' "Black Hole")
• "Marble House" (version 1: partly animated) (Björn Renner) (2006) (Featuring Jay-Jay Johanson)
• "Marble House" (version 2: mice) (Chris Hopewell) (2006) (Featuring Jay-Jay Johanson)
• "We Share Our Mothers' Health" (Motomichi Nakamura) (2006)
• "Like a Pen" (Andreas Nilsson) (2006)
• "Na Na Na" (David Vegezzi & Dagmar Weaver) (2007)

[edit] Short films

• "When I Found The Knife" (story by Frau Rabid, animated by Vardag) [1](2004)
• "When I Found The Knife Again" (Amy Engles=Amy Leech [2], [3]) (2006)

[edit] Concert film

• "Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience" (2006) (Marius Dybwad Brandrud)

[edit] Awards

2003 – Nöjesguiden’s Stockholm Award, Music Category
2003 – Swedish Hit Music Awards, Best Video “Heartbeats”
2003 – Swedish National Radio P3 “Gold”, Group of the Year
2003 – Swedish Grammies, Pop Group of the Year
2004 – Manifest Awards, Pop Rock
2004 – SAMA (Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards), Song of the Year "Heartbeats"
2006 – Pitchfork Media Album of the Year
2006 – Manifest Awards, Dance/House Techno of the Year
2006 – Manifest Awards, Live Performers of the Year
2007 – Swedish National Radio P3 “Gold”, Group of the Year
2007 – Swedish National Radio P3 “Gold”, Dance of the Year
2007 – Swedish Grammies, Artist of the Year
2007 – Swedish Grammies, Pop Album of the Year “Silent Shout”
2007 – Swedish Grammies, Songwriters of the Year
2007 – Swedish Grammies, Pop Producers of the Year
2007 – Swedish Grammies, Music-DVD of the Year "Silent Shout: An Audiovisual Experience"
2007 – Swedish Grammies, Pop Group of the Year
2007 – SAMA (Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards), Song of the Year "Marble House"
2007 – SAMA (Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards), Album of the Year "Silent Shout"

[edit] See also

• Honey Is Cool

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• The Knife discography at MusicBrainz
• The Knife at MySpace
• The Knife at Last.fm
• A Collection of The Knife and Fever Ray Music Videos at Super Duper