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everything but the LP itself

It's a boringly standard music video. They just released an explanation that claimed it was something else. I've not seen their latest press release. Unless we are referring to the one where they talked bollocks about what the video symbolised...

but as you say it's their explanation that particularly irks me. Especially as they seem so patronising about it and seem to want to spell everything out so everyone only sees their interpretation. They're not giving much credit to their audience and it's all about them. and that press release, ugh.

I'm a bit worried about the new album actually, considering its length, track titles and track lengths. Doesn't bode well. Of course critics will love it but I don't want all this unnecessary pseudo-conceptual crap.

"Tomorrow, In A Year" was the most pretentious production I've ever attended, but I'd hoped that was a blip. Unfortunately, their two most recent press releases suggest otherwise.

but cf that pretentiousness thread the other other day, there's nothing that makes you look more like a boring bastard than describing music as 'pretentious' just because it's a little out there - there's plenty of ways you can legitimately criticise this music without sounding like the Knife's embittered granddad suggesting they've got ideas above their station.

I think the one thing people forget about tje Knife is that they have a sense of humour and a lot of what they do is quite tongue in cheek - Full of Fire ends with a snatch of a Salt N Pepa song, ffs.

is definitely a phrase i'd like to use in future, a very elegant put down indeed.

just saying. Never heard 'em, so I can only make stupid jokes from the sidelines.

I am sure that everything is going to turn out well. The two full songs that have been released are brilliant, and the 6-minute clip of "Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realized" I've heard is fucking mental, too. The Knife have always - ALWAYS - been a couple of weirdos. Why is this recent development anything new?

To the OP: if you reckon the new songs are pretty good, why do you care THAT much about the extracurricular stuff? They're clearly fucking around a bit, why pay that much mind to it all?

The long and short of it is, they said at the beginning that they never planned to make another record. I'm not going to complain about anything that comes out of the fact that they DID.

I have very much not liked the new material thus far. Baffled why people are letting them get away with it.

Sort of part of the deal. Also think it's great their new material is divisive. If they were doing the same thing 7 years later that would be fairly lamentable no? There's a shedload of witch house/ tri angle etc groups who have mined the Silent Shout sound to widely varying degrees of success. The Knife obviously moved on.

Everything they do. Amazing. Love them. Looking forward to 9th May.

I suppose it's not that big a deal. I trust them enough to know what they're doing with this. I just really liked the mystery they used to possess, now that seems to be gone.

I'll gladly put your ticket to good use.

but the 'campaign' seems to have dragged on and on already to the point where I'm not even that excited hearing the album anymore. Should be a good live show though this summer.