While other bands pen pop ditties and fuss about their haircuts, avant garde siblings The Knife are writing electro-operas based on Charles Darwin’s “On The Origin Of The Species” , attending field recording workshops in the Amazon and cultivating a “positive respectless approach” to songwriting. Does your head hurt yet?
For the less cerebral among us relieve the plain with a new eleven minute track, “Colouring Of Pigeons”, taken from a forthcoming double album titled “Tomorrow, In A Year” – a studio version of the work they penned for a Danish theatre production of the same name.
If “Pigeons” is any indication a less electronic Knife are no less weird, mind-expanding or singular in their pursuit of transcendent alien mating calls, murky theatrics and magic. This time round there’s just a few more Operatic flourishes and that is most definitely a good thing.
Check out the tracklist for “Tomorrow, In a Year” and a snippet of the opera below.
CD 1:
01 Intro
02 Epochs
03 Geology
04 Upheaved
05 Minerals
06 Ebb Tide Explorer
07 Variation of Birds
08 Letter to Henslow
09 Schoal Swarm Orchestra
CD 2:
01 Annie’s Box
02 Tumult
03 Colouring of Pigeons
04 Seeds
05 Tomorrow in a Year
06 The Height of Summer
07 Annie’s Box (alternate vocal) (bonus track)
