In the seven years since Silent Shout, 's mythology has grown to the point where the Swedish duo seem like something other than a band. I want to like this album, but I just can’t, it just stagnates too much for me, it sits in one place and goes nowhere. Around the nine-minute mark it gets a little interesting, but after that, it’s nothing much. The majority of it is barely audible bass drones. Take the epic, 19-minute-long “Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realized' for example. There are some good moments on here, the first few songs are pretty good, and in most of the songs there’s parts here and there that are pretty interesting, but there’s also a lot of parts that just go nowhere.
It’s over 90 minutes long, so essentially it’s a double album, it’s very political and it has a lot of moving parts to it. I will say this, this album is certainly ambitious, and I admire The Knife for that. That seems to be the case with most avant-garde music like this.Įither you love it, or you just don’t “get' it. And I feel like this is one of those albums that, were I to tell someone that likes it that I didn’t like it, they’d just tell me that I didn’t “get' it.
Most everyone else seems to love this album, but I just can’t. The Knife's first album in seven years is the Swedish duo's most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal, a musical manifesto advocating for a better, fairer, weirder world. The Knife – “Old Dreams Waiting to be Realized” (Shaking the Habitual, 2013) Television – “Marquee Moon (Alternate)” (Marquee Moon, 1977). I want to like this album, I really really do.īuku discipline belajar tajwid.
So, with this brilliant masterwork, The Knife have truly shaken the habitual once again after 2006's 'Silent Shout' and continue to overhaul the electronic music landscape. The 19 minute drone centrepiece 'Old Dreams' has faced backlash along with other left-field tracks, but they possess a genuine beauty and must be consumed along with the poppier tracks as a unified whole in order to experience the complete picture. However I'd also say that you'll be rewarded for your patience when listening to the more, shall we say, 'demanding' tracks. For fans of 'Heartbeats' and their poppier work, I'd advise you not to worry since there are still multiple electropop bangers on here including the excellent opening two tracks. Yes, it's weird and quite lengthy, but the experimental nature of the record only highlights the sheer amount of ambition the Knife have brought to the table. 'Shaking The Habitual' miraculously manages to go above and beyond the exceedingly high expectations I had after listening to 'Silent Shout', one of the greatest albums of the 00s.
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