I cannot even begin to explain how much I love The Knife and worship the captivating Karin Dreijer. Everything from their their complicated relationship with the media and music industry to their unconventional music makes them stand out from the rest of the world. In a Lynchian style, they are oh so weird but oh so splendid.
Back in December, after a very long hiatus they announced a forthcoming fourth studio album entitled ‘Shaking the Habitual‘ (a strikingly appropriate name for this album), which is set to be released on the 8th April and tour dates in Europe to follow. On the 28th January they released the album’s lead single ‘Full of Fire‘ and it is an astonishing piece of art.
The song in itself is absolutely epic, but the video that accompanies it takes it to a whole new level. ‘Full of Fire‘ is also the perfect and logical continuation to their previous album ‘Silent Shout‘. They might have parted ways for a couple of years, but it seems that the Dreijers succeed in picking up exactly where they left off. ‘Full of Fire‘ embodies everything I love about the Knife; a fierce and aggressive beat, a unique take on dance music, Dreijer’s chilling shrill tones, and an extremely strange, disturbing 10 minute long video directed by filmmaker and visual artist Marit Östberg.
Here’s what Östberg wrote about the short movie on The Knife‘s website:
“The film ‘Full of Fire’ started to grow as an embryo in the song´s lines ‘Who looks after my story’. Who takes care of our stories when the big history, written by straight rich white men, erase the complexity of human´s lives, desires and conditions? The film ‘Full of Fire’ consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.”
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Post by Olivia
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